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Creativity Quotes
"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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"Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought."
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"Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that is the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying."
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"Writers don't write about just anybody."
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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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"Art is a gun and medicine at the same time."
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"Creative power is mightier than its possessor."
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"To create the magic, you should first believe in it."
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"If there's a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does."
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"That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when the famous 'atmosphere' it is supposed to lack was not even missed, when literature was lonely there and art and form akmost impossible, he had found the means to live and write like one of the first; to be free and general and not at all afraid; to feel, understand, and express everything."
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"In order to write about life first you must live it."
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"...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell."
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"The seed of all impulse is a feeling bursting to express itself in action."
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"It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him."
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"We are souls, eternal and perfect, captains of our mystic ships: gods and goddesses of our universe. We are beautiful, we pearls of grit. We, the ember of everything. Our uniqueness IS what makes us special, and the expression of it is our gift to the rest of us. In order to feel happy and fulfilled, we must honour our own personal brand of creativity... let it out into the world... BE who we came here to BE."
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"A book is a dream you hold in your hands."
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"We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn't discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists."
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"Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something."
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"Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line."
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"If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side."
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"I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery."
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"In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping."
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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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"What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature. We have room for everybody, and we are extraordinarily open to genuine experimentation."
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"I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over."
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"Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different."
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"Originality of mind untainted,And enthusiasm for life, unlimited."
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"Dreams create hope, energy and passion and together reveal your hidden abilities and untapped potential."
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"The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic."
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"Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation."
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"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
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"She tapped out a beat on the edge of the piano as I tripped and plummeted through the refrain of "Spacebar, trying to translate the synth chords into a piano bit on the fly. It had been a million years since I'd played it.But it was still catchy.Whoever had written this song had known what they were doing."
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"The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist."
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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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"Writing every book, the writer must solve two problems: Can it be done? and, Can I do it? Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."
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"I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly."
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"You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally."
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"You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal."
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"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us."
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"The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting."
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"Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there..."
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"Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles."
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"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."
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"And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves."
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"Never allow yourself to be sapped of your extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive."
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"Open your creative heart like an unfurling flower and petal and share your exquisiteness."
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"And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it. I choose to block out all the external (and internal) noise and distractions, and to come home again and again to creativity. Because without that source of wonder, I know that I am doomed. Without it, I will forever wander the world in a state of bottomless dissatisfaction-nothing but a howling ghost, trapped in a body made of slowly deteriorating meat."
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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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"YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode."
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