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Creativity Quotes
"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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"To create is to be divine."
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"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
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"Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind's eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it - and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life; and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended - a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence."
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"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent."
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"Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style," Kelsier said.Then he punched Ruin across the face."
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"Many writers were better before they became famous."
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"You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche."
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"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
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"It does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo."
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"I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing."
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"If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever."
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"Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction."
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"Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination."
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"Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways."
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"The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging."
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"The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it."
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
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"As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity."
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"Art is the only answer to chaos and the void."
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"In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee."
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"Poetry is Life. We experience poetry from the time we awake each morning and inhale that fresh breath of air. You are living poetry. Poetry is not defined by the laws of man. Inspiration is the key."
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"I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself."
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"Drink from the ethereal philosophy of Heaven and you may see life as no more no less than a dream made of pure poetry from divine source."
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"When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write."
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"My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college."
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"If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that."
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"Maybe the job of the artist is to see through all of this strangeness to what really is, and that takes a lot of courage and a strong faith in the validity of the artistic vision even if there is not a conscious faith in God."
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"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
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"As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about."
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"You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself."
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"Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you."
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"Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action."
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"In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you."
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"Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'."
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"Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."
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"My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head."
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"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."
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"I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it."
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"Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm."
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"She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. So she read instead, and admired those who could."
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"Language is very tough, though, a tenacity that is backed up by a long history. However it is treated, its autonomy cannot be lost or seriously damaged, even if that treatment is rather rough. It is the inherent right of all writers to experiment with the possibilities of language in every way they can imagine-without that adventurous spirit, nothing new can ever be born."
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"We like that a sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end."
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"A writer cannot serve today those who make history, he must serve those who are subject to it."
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"When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed."
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"Use your own paint, colour your world."
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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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"Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?"
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"Creative living is a path for the brave."
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