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Creativity Quotes
"I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives."
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"I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going."
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"You can fix anything but a blank page."
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"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
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"I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it."
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"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."
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"What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?"
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"There's no such thing as writer's block, so long as you've had plenty of time to think about what you want to write."
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"How does one say something new and not retell?"
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"Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing."
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"Art is the medium through which you express the inexpressible, convey the unconveyable, transporting the audience in different realms of existence erasing their mental identities. Any effort by the artist to make an personal identity is detrimental in an artistic sense. Be Wiser, leave no residue, dissolve in ART!"
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"Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination."
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"I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties."
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"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality."
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"Well it's good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody'll say, 'why don't you come over for dinner?' and I can just say, 'Car won't make it.' I don't have to tell them that time is scarcer than young pussy around here, and I don't mean time to write POETRY. I mean time to lay in bed, alone, and stare up at the ceiling and not think at all, not at all, not at all."
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"I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately."
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"To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered."
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"I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to."
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"Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration."
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"Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves."
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"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
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"Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time."
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"...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them."
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"Write from the heart always."
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"I sat and three hours later realized I had been seized by an idea that started short but grew to wild size by day's end. The concept was so riveting I found it hard at sunset to flee the library basement and take the bus home to reality: my house, my wife, and our baby daughter."
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"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest."
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"Do not be cursed by documented findings and so-called facts, invention itself is not yet an antique for the museum. Not every voice has the right to sponsor your beliefs and words."
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"You write a thought down because you want to see what next as a thought is going to come out."
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"Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash."
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"But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
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"The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create."
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"No good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one..."
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"Its odd to be a writer, you hear someone's experience and you stash it away in some tiny part of your memory and you go on your way again, only to find; in a few lived through chapters of your story a piece of their puzzle became your pathway to hope and you create words from it, like your mind creates some kind of magic. 'Yeah, it's odd being a writer."
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"If I build own language... will be better because I always will end up making new words."
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"The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!"
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"Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is like pulling all the petals off a flower in order to analyze it, and ending up having destroyed the flower."
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"The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition."
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"The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery."
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"My ideas fuck like rabbits."
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"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."
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"Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously."
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"You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper."
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"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."
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"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."
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"I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things."
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"I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny."
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"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
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"The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences."
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