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Creativity Quotes
"Having an open mind is the most important precondition for creatingnew ideas."
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"Always think in circles to get your ideas around."
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"What you don't write is often more important than what you do."
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"Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths..."
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"Imagination is a spark of a divine light."
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"There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity."
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"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things."
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"They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men."
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"A Writer Drenched in Words is Never Caught in a Dry Spell."
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"Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed."
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"The answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ..."
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"Reflection is an underlining theme of Design Thinking."
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"Surprise is where creativity comes in."
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"A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it."
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"Want creativity? Diversify your experience to develop your creative muscles."
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"All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."
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"When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an outlandish setting and convert everything into a hazy, misty Turner landscape. ['Back garden of a dream']"
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"Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another."
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"In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day."
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"If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit."
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"An idea occurs in the mind, where it is confined and useless. An idea lives when it leaves the mind."
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"I decided that a story was anything that I made up that kept the reader turning the pages or watching, and did not leave the reader or the viewer feeling cheated at the end."
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"If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers."
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"You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves."
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"Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second."
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"If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen."
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"When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential."
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"You have to be an artist and a madman..."
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"An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully."
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"If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write."
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"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."
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"Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed."
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"Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it."
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"Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you."
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"As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths."
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"My mind is like a Zoo with no cages... Watch where you step."
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"Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos."
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"We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented them, in sleepless nights, tears, spasmodic laughter, rashes, asthmas, epilepsies, and the fear of death, which is worse than all the rest."
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"You take a universal concept, something that has been done a million times (because everything has been done a million times), and add a fresh twist to it. Something no one saw coming. But mostly fresh writing! Keep it clean, simple, and compelling."
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"Yes?' he asked, looking at me over the sheet.'I'm a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.''Oh, a writer, eh?''Yes.''Are you sure?''No, I'm not.''What do you write?''Short stories mostly. And I'm halfway through a novel.''A novel, eh?''Yes.''What's the name of it?''The Leaky Faucet of My Doom.''Oh, I like that. What's it about?''Everything.''Everything? You mean, for instance, it's about cancer?''Yes.''How about my wife?''She's in there too."
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"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."
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"As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist."
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"I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels of this war have had too much of the strength, maturity and craftsmanship critics are looking for, and too little of the glorious imperfections which teeter and fall off the best minds. The men who have been in this war deserve some sort of trembling melody rendered without embarrassment or regret. I'll watch for that book."
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"She burns like the sunBeautiful when she comes undoneNo restraintsPure passion flowing through her veinsMadness refusing to be tamed."
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"The creative person has to dissolve all should and should nots. He needs freedom and space, vast space; he needs the whole sky and all the stars. Only then can his innermost spontaneity start growing."
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"You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet."
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"Be daring, take on anything. Don't labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind."
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"I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job."
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