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Creativity Quotes
"Play is the highest form of research."
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"Unwritten words grow out of silence."
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"The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason."
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"Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design."
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"We write for the same reason that we walk , talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are."
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"Athletes take care of their bodies. Writers must similarly take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. There is nourishment in books, other art, history, philosophies-in holiness and in mirth. It is in honest hands-on labor also; I don't mean to indicatea preference for the scholarly life. And it is in the green world-among people, and animals, and trees for that matter, if one genuinely cares about trees."
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"Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules."
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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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"One man's insanity is another man's genius, someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity."
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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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"Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world."
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"What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul."
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"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."
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"There are two kinds of writing the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go. You look where you don't want to look."
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"That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us."
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"Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery."
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“About clichés. Avoid them like the plague.”
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"Having an open mind is the most important precondition for creatingnew ideas."
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"Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths..."
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"Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought."
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"The seed of all impulse is a feeling bursting to express itself in action."
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"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."
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"Be daring, take on anything. Don't labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind."
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"I just thought, 'Wait a minute, if I'm going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place.' And this is the least quiet place I've ever been in my life. It's like taking the bar exam at Coachella. It's like, 'Um, I really need to concentrate on this! Guys! Can you all just I have to It's super important for my law!"
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"Out of Box is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective."
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"All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down."
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"I do not attachany exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life isthere to be lived rather than to be written about. My aimis to search out the manifold experience that it offers,wringing from each moment what of emotion it presents.I look upon my writing as a graceful accomplishmentwhich does not absorb but rather adds pleasure toexistence. And as for posterity-damn posterity."
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"The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!!"
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"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
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"Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do anywhere. It poses the deepest questions in the universe. It generates emotion. It elicits empathy, promotes learning, creates an intellect you simply cannot get from any other medium. For me, it is air."
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"If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life."
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"My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep."
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"Open your creative heart like an unfurling flower and petal and share your exquisiteness."
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"It's genius simmering, perhaps. I'll let it simmer, and see what comes of it, he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn't genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer."
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"If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?"
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"The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging."
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"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
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"A good writer is a magician, she unfolds the dark secrets of mind."
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"I write because I cannot NOT write."
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"Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story."
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"The first draft of anything is shit."
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"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight."
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
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"What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?"
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"An idea is an amazing creation of the human mind, which comes either asa result of one's continuous endeavors for solving a certain problem or justas a spark that lights up the considered problem."
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"Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world."
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