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Beloved Children’s Book Author and Illustrator Leo Lionni on Creativity and the Secret of Great Storytelling
Beloved Children’s Book Author and Illustrator Leo Lionni on Creativity and the Secret of Great Storytelling

“What we create … we fill in with our own thoughts and feelings.”

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Why Science-Fiction Writers Are So Good at Predicting the Future
Why Science-Fiction Writers Are So Good at Predicting the Future

“At its core, good science fiction must rest on good science.”

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The Benjamin Franklin Effect: The Surprising Psychology of How to Handle Haters
The Benjamin Franklin Effect: The Surprising Psychology of How to Handle Haters

“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

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Mark Rothko on the Transcendent Power of Art and How (Not) To Experience His Paintings
Mark Rothko on the Transcendent Power of Art and How (Not) To Experience His Paintings

“The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.”

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