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“You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.”

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.”

Mind Believe Book Dream Reading I Believe Mistake Cases Paper Letters Invention Composition Suggestions Papers Prompts Paper Books

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his two drawings and made a complete panorama. Now, 163 years later, I was able to use his great invention to elaborate on his youthful dream of capturing and fixing the fleeting image. In doing so, I may also have added another little bit to the soul of this extraordinary place.”

Source: Permutations on the picturesque

“Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope