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Creativity Quotes
"Words give sound to the beauty of Life."
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"Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all."
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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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"Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them."
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"At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart."
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional."
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"I do not know which of us has written this page."
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"That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you."
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"I made a decision long ago not to make any apologies. Romance rocks, and even though my books don't actually fall into the romance genre, I tout them as very much being about the romance. It's fun. We're all obsessed with it. And it's human nature. Remember, NO APOLOGIES! Write what 's in your heart!"
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"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas."
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"The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity."
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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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"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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"A little conflict can create a lot of creativity."
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"I myself, as I'm writing, don't know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start to write a story, I don't know the conclusion at all and I don't know what's going to happen next. If there is a murder case as the first thing, I don't know who the killer is. I write the book because I would like to find out. If I know who the killer is, there's no purpose to writing the story."
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"Nothing novel or interesting happens unless it is on the border between order and chaos."
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"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."
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"Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone."
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"Magic. I draw with silver and it turns red."
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"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."
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"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding."
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"We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes."
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"Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed."
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"I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre."
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"So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference."
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"Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office."
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"Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent."
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"But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape."
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"There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances."
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"An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man."
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"There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas."
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"We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy."
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"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."
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"The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie."
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"The idea is that the object has a language unto itself."
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"Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist."
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"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
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"A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd."
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"Everything you write is not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier."
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"A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."
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"The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess."
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"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
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"I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels."
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"The houses looked like something a child might draw, a row of shaky squares with triangles on top. Add a door, add two windows. Think of putting a tree in the front yard, and then decide against it because branches aren't worth the trouble."
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"It's real great to be back in my studio to create amazing music , after I took a break it was awesome to go back once again and create this awesome soundtrack ,,,,,how can I forget you .... I love all chords I've created and nothing in this world compares the beauty and the greatness of being in my studio and creating this adorable music ...endless greatness."
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"Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas."
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"I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy."
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