"It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me."

Creativity, Idea, Obvious, Want

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"It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me."

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"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Creativity, Imagery, Addiction, Escape, Life

"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Creativity, Desire, Art, Museums, Imagination

"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Creativity, Passion, Reading, Writing

"As for my next book I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear pendant gravid asking to be cut or it will fall."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Creativity, Inspirational, Writing, Patience

"You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Creativity, Competence

"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Creativity, Writing, Integrity, Expression, Happiness

"The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Creativity, Imagination, Humanity, Art

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Creativity, Solitude, Life, Mind

"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Creativity, Poetry, Writing, Prose, Art

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Creativity, Homesickness, Sense, Wrong

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"Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me."

Success

"It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it."

Work

"I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!"

Reading

"People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile."

People

"Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up."

Childhood

"I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am."

Success

"Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk."

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"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"

"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."

"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."

"As for my next book I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear pendant gravid asking to be cut or it will fall."

"You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal."

"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."

"The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging."

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

Explore more quotes by Judith Guest

"Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me."

"It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it."

"I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!"

"People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile."

"Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up."

"I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am."

"My success is not who I am."

"With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am."

"I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired."

"Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk."