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Creativity Quotes
"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on."
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"I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right."
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"Sing your own song. There are always some earnest listeners."
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"Coraline tried drawing the mist. After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper with "MIST" written on it one corner in slightly wiggly letters. She grunted and passed it to her mother."Mm. Very modern, dear," said Coraline's mother."
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"Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before."
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"All the time she writing the world had continued."
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"They say it's a dangerous experiment to include dreams (actual dreams or otherwise) in the fiction you write. Only a handful of writers - and I'm talking the most talented - are able to pull off the irrational synthesis you find in dreams."
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"And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't."
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"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."
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"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."
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"Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design."
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"I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment."
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"Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a body of suffering and when you take up language you take up the suffering too. All my life I have been suffering for words. Words have been the source of the pain and the way to heal. Struck as a child for talking, for speaking out of turn, for being out of my place. Struck as a grown woman for not knowing when to shut up, for not being willing to sacrifice words for desire. Struck by writing a book that disrupts. There are many ways to be hit. Pain is the price we pay to speak the truth."
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"Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment."
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"A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious."
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"Life is a recipe book our words always cook enough."
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"When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church."
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"In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind."
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"Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination."
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"You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."
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"I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles-your Magus of words."
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"Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter."
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"You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal."
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"You are a painter of success. Paint your life into a masterpiece of excellence."
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"A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place."
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"I could either succumb to the nightmares I've raised or paint them."
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"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
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"It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see."
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"The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity."
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"All people are musicians', Wit countered. 'The question is whether or not they share their songs.'"
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"Revolution begins in putting on bright colors."
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"The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
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"My imagination is a twisted place."
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"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
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"The more mindless the task, the higher probability of subconscious disruption can stimulate creativity."
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"Only the ideas that we really live have any value."
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"Many storytellers with possibly more potential than Shakespeare, even though I have not read much of him, could not hit much fame because they treated their stories like their wives. Rather than limiting the emotion only to flirting with their stories, they married them, thus limiting their chances of experimenting."
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"Writing a story is like going on a date-you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment."
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"Sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me."
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"Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony."
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"The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks inside, outside, below and above the box."
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"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."
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"It's amazing what you can do when you get creative."
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"This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit down and wait for this to happen. But it never did happen — not this way. It happened afterwards, sometimes when I had left the machine and gone for a walk. Yes, suddenly it would come on, like an attack, pell-mell, from every direction, a veritable inundation, an avalanche — and there I was, helpless, miles away from the typewriter, not a piece of paper in my pocket."
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"It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the internet-""You invented the internet?", Martha said., George said."It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the internet, not the rats. But that's not the point."
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"Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations."
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"Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art."
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"I am an artist, and a rebel one at that. I live in the voluptuous dimension of imagination, so if you're expecting normalcy (dullness) from me, sorry to disappoint, but you're quite mistaken. Ordinary is not my best attire, I've tried it and normal just never fit quite right. I will always be the crazy one who believes in magic, unicorns and impossible dreams. But also love, compassion and empathy."
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