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Creativity Quotes
"A blank cheque kills creativity."
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"Creativity is like the light, the reason we see the light because the "switch is on and the connection is made."
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"We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is."
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"The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations."
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"She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!"
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"The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism."
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"If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more."
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"Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas."
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"The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody."
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"I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea."
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"I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other."
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"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."
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"Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner."
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"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."
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"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
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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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"You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre."
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"A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues."
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"You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born."
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"Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.'Pray,' they said, and I laughed,covering myself in the earth's brightnesses,and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel,and prayed like an orphan."
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"By the way . . . I realize I switch from present to past tense, and if you don't like it . . . ram a nipple up your scrotum. -printer: leave this in."
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"They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea."
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"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."
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"I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?"
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"If the writer were more like a reader, he'd be a reader, not a writer. It's as uncomplicated as that."
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"I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity."
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"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
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"A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system."
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"No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough."
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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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"Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician."
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"When you're at a loss for words. Draw a picture."
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"Angel dust blown a sunder,Nestling on the edge of unchartered dreams,Filtering the dileneation between ones desires & needs."
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"My mind aches with a thousand stories. All variations with shredded threads of truth."
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"I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see,As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me."
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"I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot."
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"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
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"Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it."
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"Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed."
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"I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now."
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"We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement."
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"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."
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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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"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."
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"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
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"Characters begin as your children and become your teachers."
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"When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement."
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"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."
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