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Creativity Quotes
"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."
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"The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse."
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"Doors are for people with no imagination."
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"It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea."
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"One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that."
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"No where in 'humpty dumpty' did it say he was an egg. Maybe your inability to think outside of what others have taught you is what's keeping you from putting him together again."
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"In the wander land, we engage ourselves in writing."
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"You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else."
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"If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person."
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"Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in colour and form-spiritual sensations, as it were, hitherto unproved."
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"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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"When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough."
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"When an artist friend of mine explained she was working her way up the creative ladder, I asked if she would kindly paint the front of my house on the way up."
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"There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that's been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us, so don't get discouraged if I didn't mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day."
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"This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy."
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"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic."
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"If you can't give the is-ness of a thing give the not-ness of it! The main thing is to hook up, get the wheels turning, sound off. When your brakes jam, try going in reverse. If often works."
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"As long as you write, you'll never be lonely."
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"In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.'I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately."
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"Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people's imagination."
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"Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration."
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"The best writing speaks when the heart whispers."
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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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"Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat."
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"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
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"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."
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"The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer."
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"I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do."
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"My writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on..."
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"We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure."
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"I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered."
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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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"Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea."
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"I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny."
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"The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true."
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"Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within."
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"Ideas any one can mould as he wishes."
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"Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail."
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"My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game."
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"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."
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"If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'"
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"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
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"You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question."
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"I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder."
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