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Creativity Quotes
"What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations."
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"I am a storyteller and experience the bliss of writing."
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"Creativity is magic in the making."
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"There's a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional."
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"The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means."
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"Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case."
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"I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc."
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"Art is the objectification of feeling."
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"The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book."
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"Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us."
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"The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it."
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"So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn."
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"It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished."
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"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
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"The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it."
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"My best ideas come in the shower, where I'm showered with water, but also ideas."
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"This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it."
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"Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation."
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"In a weak moment, I have written a book."
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"I haven't used my glamour since I was twelve years old, she whispered, gaze piercing as if it were very important to her that Scarlet understand this. "Not since I was old enough to control it. That's why the visions come to me. That's why I'm going mad."
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"Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it."
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"When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement."
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"My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind."
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"Science fiction is not prescriptive, it is descriptive."
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"At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition."
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"Creativity is a unique characteristics that a person can posses from his or her own knowledge when he or she is creating changes in society that can benefit a vast amount of people."
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"I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily."
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"Every great and original writer in proportion as he is great and original must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished."
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"Being a writer is a good, good thing."
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"Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique."
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"The limitless mind lets us dream and examine and explore. It opens us up to opportunity. We come up with a desire, a clear, fresh perspective, and a potential goal to observe from afar. And we wonder, is this it, the right choice, the best choice to follow?"
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"Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted."
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"What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be."
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"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."
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"Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul."
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"Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority. You should write one.Seth Godin"
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"But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good."
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"The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind."
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"We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying."
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"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
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"Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated."
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"Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop, suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head."
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"The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy."
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"Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed."
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"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
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"There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't reflect the storyteller's true beliefs, it will only reflect what he BELIEVES he believes, or what he thinks he should believe or what he's been persuaded of. But when you write without deliberately expressing moral teachings, the morals that show up are the ones you actually live by. The beliefs that you don't even think to question, that you don't even notice-- those will show up. And that tells much more truth about what you believe than your deliberate moral machinations."
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