Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
–Brad Paisley
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Kaleidoscope #863
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
― Gilda Radner
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Kaleidoscope #861
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.’
― Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
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Kaleidoscope #860
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
― Alice Walke
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Kaleidoscope #859
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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Kaleidoscope #846
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
― Khaled Hosseini
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Kaleidoscope #845
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse.
― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
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Kaleidoscope #843
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
–Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
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Kaleidoscope #842
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
–Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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Kaleidoscope #841
Isn’t it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.
–Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy in Spite of Herself
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Denise M. Sessous: writer, artist & dreamer 