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Creativity Quotes
"A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men."
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"Great dream or idea comes up when you are thinking of something other than yourself."
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"Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head."
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"Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process, frustration is the process."
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"Names do not write poems nor do they create work."
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"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
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"Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing."
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"Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create..."
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"Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them."
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"And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence."
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"Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them."
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"Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)"
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"You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page."
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"Publishing is definitely something you do because you enjoy educating or entertaining people."
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"With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night's sky."
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"Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality."
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"Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do."
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"Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of."
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"The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination."
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"You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before."
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"One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic."
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"No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination."
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"When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water."
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"I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume."
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"Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
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"Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week."
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"You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."
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"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."
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"They say it's a dangerous experiment to include dreams (actual dreams or otherwise) in the fiction you write. Only a handful of writers - and I'm talking the most talented - are able to pull off the irrational synthesis you find in dreams."
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"I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong."
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"I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit."
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"The idea of a language more simple than ours."
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"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."
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"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
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"Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the buried gold."
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"For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent."
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"It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid."
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"Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless."
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"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
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"Live life with creative purpose."
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"Most of my novels were developped from dreams I had. A dreamer I AM! Literally , at 1 AM. A dream with 140 characters is to dream an impossible dream. Too many characters to develoo from it. But in twitter that worked just fine for me."
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"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."
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"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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"Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off)."
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"We need music," Nico said. "How's your singing?""Um, no. Can't you just, like, tell it to open? You're the son of Hades and all.""It's not so easy. We need music."I was pretty sure if I tried to sing, all I would cause was an avalanche."
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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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"Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world."
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"We fucked a flame into being."
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"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
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