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Creativity Quotes
"In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?"
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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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"Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind."
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"Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way."
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"You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal."
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"Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot."
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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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"I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer."
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"Self-reflection is an important stage to diagnose, develop and strengthen your creativity."
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"Nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."
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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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"Create content to add value, not to get likes."
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"Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor."
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"Create a character with an obsession, then follow."
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"I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful beach for all to enjoy, rather than a flash in a pan that yields no heat."
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"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."
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"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling."
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"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing."
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"You fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought..."
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"If I have been given any gift in this life, it's my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination."
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"I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination."
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"It's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear " I speak quietly " I sob " I whisper..."
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"If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice."
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"Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them."
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"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
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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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"So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends."
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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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"No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it."
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"It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival."
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"There is at the back of every artist's mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied."
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"If life's pen passion is ink!"
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"I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination."
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"...any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to the fullest of one's ability, with a fierce commitment barely distinguishable from neurotic obsession. ... In fact...commitment to the point of obsession wasn't merely an obligation but a necessity..."
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"People who don't construe their life and don't frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a story and turn into an "empty box". Out-of-the-box thinking and inventiveness remains then merely wishfull thinking. ['Everybody his story']"
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"I write with all my heart."
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"The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking."
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"Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where it is impossible to say where the blue stops and the red begins."
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"You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations."
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"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."
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"Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create."
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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 man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"The human spirit's unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity."
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"Great dream or idea comes up when you are thinking of something other than yourself."
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"What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"
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"Until you begin to write, then you see wonders."
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