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Creativity Quotes
"You mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly..."
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"The best way to foster creativity is to help people communicate in a way that instills confidence, not fear."
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"Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun."
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"Measuring your limits is only possible with the unit called Imagination."
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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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"We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery."
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"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
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"Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak."
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"Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country."
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"A blank cheque kills creativity."
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"The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly."
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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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"Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind."
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"An innovative mind allows "the creative flow to open up for information abundance."
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"The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master."
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"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."
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"Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on."
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"The path of genius is free, and its own."
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"I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination."
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"A good idea always attracts other good ideas."
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"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."
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"Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe."
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"You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful."
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"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
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"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination."
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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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"Mad Max the crazies ever made film. Such unique, incrediable, awesome and phenomenal film. You can't believe how is made!"
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"Open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering..."
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"This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold."
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"The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl."
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"Space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new."
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"What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,'.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come."
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"I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity."
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"Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me, it is my life."
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"Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature."
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"Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal."
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"Writing things was important, wasn't it? Nakata asked.'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is completely meaningless."
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"The secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ..."
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"I am one thing, my writings are another."
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"Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do."
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"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."
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"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
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"Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time."
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"It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality."
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"The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so."
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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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"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does."
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"All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."
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"To create the magic, you should first believe in it."
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