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Book cover for InkStained: On Creativity, Writing, and Art

InkStained: On Creativity, Writing, and Art by John Urbancik

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In school, we’re taught at an early age to color between the lines, that grass is green and the sky is blue. But creative people sometimes make the grass blue, and sometimes redraw lines or ignore them altogether.

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“Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.”
― Richard Laymon, The Stake

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“Don't go, Bobby," said my friend. "It's not worth it.”
― Dan Simmons, Song of Kali

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“I could not live without seasons, for in seasons are reflected in the rhythms of our existence: of birth and maturity, or decline and decay, yet always with the promise of renewal for those who remain.”
― John Connolly, Nocturnes

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“The funny thing is,” she said, “that I still love him. I don’t want to—he butchered my mother and my little brother, then blew his own head off—but I still find that, when I think about him, I still feel some love. Pathetic, isn’t it?”
― Gary A. Braunbeck, Halfway Down The Stairs

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“I think there's nothing out there but cold darkness. Nothing but an endless vacuum, and it's only by a freak chance we're alive to know it.”
― Simon Strantzas, Cold to the Touch

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