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Creativity Quotes
"Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down."
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"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."
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"An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason."
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"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."
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"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive."
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"Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information."
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"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
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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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"I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal."
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"I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'"
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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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"You see, the catch about portrait painting-I've looked into the thing a bit- is that you can't startpainting portraits till people come along and ask you to, andthey won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first.This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie."
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"Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming."
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"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."
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"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
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"Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware."
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"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
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"I am a huge believer in revelations and fun twists."
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"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens."
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"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
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"Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation."
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"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight."
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"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."
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"One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that."
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"I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful."
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"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."
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"Don't let writers block push you around. Figure out what the problem is,whether it's with the ms or it's in your personal life, and face it head on. Don't stop writing. Just try really hard to work through it."
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"There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list."
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"Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay."
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"Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body is busy at noble tasks, creativity flows like water in a stream: the artist creates, the writer writes."
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"The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things."
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"He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn't the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled talent. A lifetime of honing and shaping torn apart in less than a second. All those stories, all those images, and what came out looked like so much oatmeal. What was the point?"
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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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"I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in."
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"Creativity is like the ocean: sometimes it is an unstoppable wave bursting forth, crashing onto the shore, and overwhelmingly flowing with no hope of restraint; other times it is completely still, lingering aimlessly and endlessly, seemingly devoid of any inspiration."
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"I do not know which of us has written this page."
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"You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas."
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"I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd."
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"Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes."
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"If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope."
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"My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch-a fantasy one."
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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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"I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection."
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"I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on."
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"The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience."
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"You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words."
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"I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story."
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"A blank cheque kills creativity."
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