"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."

Creativity, Idea, Wrong

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"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

Creativity, Writing, Faith, Grace, Audience

"Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It's time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Creativity, Hope, Society, Love, Change

"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Creativity, Writing, Life, Talent, Expression

"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Creativity, Writing, Quality, Process

"As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Creativity, Writing, Thought, Reflection

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

Anais Nin, American Author

Creativity, Writer

"I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Creativity, Music, Lose, Earth, Play

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

Alice Hoffman, American Author

Creativity, Patience, Process, Flow

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Creativity, Poetry, Life, Innocence, Truth

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Creativity, Art, Perception, Emotion

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"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

Blame, Luxury, Right, Self

"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."

Progress, Race

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."

Control, Honesty

"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."

Success, People, Successful, Rest, World

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."

People, Idea

"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."

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"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."

"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

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"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."

"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."

"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."

"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."