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Creativity Quotes
"Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful."
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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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"I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations."
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"I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it."
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"The best way to be unique and set ourselves apart from Society is to create. Use your imagination and apply action towards it."
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"To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing."
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"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube."
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"Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference."
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"A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation."
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"To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all."
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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 have spent a good many years since-too many, I think-being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all."
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"And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them."
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"It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants."
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"The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role."
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"I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being."
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"One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!"
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"Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth."
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"This call for a new culture is not a new idea."
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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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"Writing things was important, wasn't it? Nakata asked.'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is completely meaningless."
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"The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live."
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"The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology."
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"An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself."
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"And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek."
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"I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters."
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"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
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"My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea."
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"The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing."
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"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance."
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"If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting."
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"I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality."
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"After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures."
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"I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!"
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"You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing."
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"If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant."
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"I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field."
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"Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management."
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"My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind."
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"With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new."
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"Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done. Most of it is not like fairy dust in the least."
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"When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen."
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"When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams come true."
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"Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one."
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"Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame."
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"I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that."
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"No one has madethe art by which one makes the worksof art. Each one who speaks speaksas a convocation. We live as councilsof ghosts. It is not "human genius"that makes us human, but an old love,an old intelligence of the heartwe gather to us from the world,from the creatures, from the angelsof inspiration, from the dead--an intelligence merely nonexistentto those who do not have it, but --to those who have it more dear than life."
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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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"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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