Creative Quotations from . . .
Sholem Asch
(1880-1957) born on Nov 01
US novelist. "He was noted for tales of Jewish life and Biblical novels including "The Apostle," 1943 and "Moses," 1951."
 
   
F
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

R
"The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details."
A
It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
N
The lash may force men to physical labor: it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
K
"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "...As One Mad With Wine," by Elyse and Mike Sommer, 1991."
R: "In "The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases," by Donald Bolander, 1987."
A: "In "W.O.W. - Writers on Writing," by Jon Winokur, 1990."
N: "In "Great Business Quotations," by Rolf B. White, 1986."
K: ""The Nazarene," 1939."



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