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Creativity Quotes
"I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example..."
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"Each of us has the ability to create."
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"A writer seeks to discover a lucid state of creative consciousness uncoiling from a boule of internal disequilibrium and dutifully attempts to bridge that cavernous divide between the known and the unknown and articulate raw truths."
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"Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind."
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"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."
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"At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas."
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"Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going."
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"We write to embrace the sacred thoughts."
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"I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again."
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"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."
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"I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones."
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"I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing authors and reviews, I sit on committees with capable practical greengrocers and bootmakers... Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh."
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"When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate."
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"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."
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"From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola."
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"If life is a song, you must be the superb lyrics to a sweet melody."
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"Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and exchange of compliments in Chelsea and Chiswick and a faint thrill in Streatham and Surbiton, is described as "daring," though nobody on earth knows what danger it is that he dares. I speak, of course, of terrestrial dangers; or the only sort of dangers he believes in. To be extravagantly flattered by everybody he considers enlightened, and rather feebly rebuked by everybody he considers dated and dead, does not seem so appalling a peril that a man should be stared at as a heroic warrior and militant martyr because he has had the strength to endure it."
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"When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens."
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"Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death."
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"What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape."
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"Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also has to feel language, to know it sweat and dry. The writer finds the words are visceral, and when she can eat them, wear them, and enter them like tunnels she discovers the alleged separation between word and meaning between writer and word is theoretical."
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"If we allow our "high creativity" to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in line at the super market. Or we can be lost in awe at all the people around us, their lives full of glory and tragedy, and suddenly we will have the beginnings of a painting, a story, a song."
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"I'm so happy that I'm having the chance to create amazing music that bringing happiness and joy to me and to others in this world, it's a dream came true."
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"Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity."
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"Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?"
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"The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one's mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible."
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"Explore your inner creative genius through the medium you love and enjoy the journey!"
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"Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations."
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"In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos."
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"Develop the daily habit of visualisation and dreaming by consciously seeing a better and brighter future through your mind's eye."
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"Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself."
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"Don't be like so many writers,don't be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don't be dull and boring andpretentious, don't be consumed with self-love.the libraries of the world haveyawned themselves tosleepover your kind.don't add to that.don't do it."
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"It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world."
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"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"
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"Instead of thinking outside the box,Get rid of the box."
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"Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something."
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"Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time."
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"If you see her staring into space, probably her mind is in a deep poetic embrace or a story is brewing in her clever little head. This girl is in a trance, it will pass, just let her be until she has completed her beautiful internal dance."
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"In the best interest of profession, a writer should sometimes refrain from writing."
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"Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you."
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"A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way."
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"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."
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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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"The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page."
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"Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you're sure to receive."
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"Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time."
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"She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and free."
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