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Creativity Quotes
"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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"Imagination rules the world."
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"Doors are for people with no imagination."
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"There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer's estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."
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"I improvise therefore I exist!"
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"I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out."
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"It's just another one of those things I don't understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity."
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"The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me."
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"Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas."
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"The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme."
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"Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians."
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"I am a writer, I write what I feel and what like."
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"A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents."
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"It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it."
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"The awareness in the moment serves you the most when you are about to create your imagination into a reality."
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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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"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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"The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy."
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"The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things."
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"The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book."
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"So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas."
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"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."
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"I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with."
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"I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency."
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"The best writing speaks when the heart whispers."
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"Have the vision to create something wonderful, something that has true value forever."
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"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
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"That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film."
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"The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer."
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"Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace."
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"The ball and chain of creativity has no key."
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"The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow."
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"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."
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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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"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
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"Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations."
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"Walking's a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too."
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"Sometimes writing is like playing with fire. like trying to tame an uncontrollable beast."
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"I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality."
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"Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea."
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"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore."
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"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
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"No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense."
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"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar."
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"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."
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"We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the sea where even the trails become thoughtful."
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"For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates."
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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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