

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Conversations with Maya Angelou · 1989
Traced to Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).
More from Maya Angelou
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
Maya Angelou
Letter to My Daughter · 2009
verified“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I'll rise.”
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And Still I Rise · 1978
verified“When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.”
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Paris Review Interview · 1990
verified“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings · 1969
verified“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
Maya Angelou
The Truth in Words · 2005
likely“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
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Maya Angelou's Facebook page · 2011
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“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
Virginia Woolf
Between the Acts · 1941
verified“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own · 1929
verified“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own · 1929
verified“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court · 1889
verified“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
T.S. Eliot
Dante · 1929
verified“Artists are here to disturb the peace.”
James Baldwin
An Interview with James Baldwin · 1961
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