Quote by Gaston Bachelard
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. – Gaston Bachelard

Other quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. – Gaston Bachelard

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that childs world and thus a world event. – Gaston Bachelard

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. – Gaston Bachelard

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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. – Joseph Addison

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, Id type a little faster. – Isaac Asimov

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. – Nelson Algren

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. – Walter Bagehot

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Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen. – Leonardo DaVinci

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Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at? – Lord Byron

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