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Creativity Quotes
"I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job."
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"A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others."
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"Out of Box is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective."
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"If we don't manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a world of withering expectations, we have to rewrite the script of our life. ['Into a new life']"
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"But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient."
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"Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad."
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"Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, Live forever! Bradbury later said, I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."
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"A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,Lingering onward dreamilyIn an evening of July -Children three that nestle near,Eager eye and willing ear,Pleased a simple tale to hear -Long has paled that sunny sky:Echoes fade and memories die:Autumn frosts have slain July.Still she haunts me, phantomwise,Alice moving under skiesNever seen by waking eyes.Children yet, the tale to hear,Eager eye and willing ear,Lovingly shall nestle near.In a Wonderland they lie,Dreaming as the days go by,Dreaming as the summers die:Ever drifting down the stream -Lingering in the golden gleam -Life, what is it but a dream?"
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"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."
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"My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus."
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"When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds."
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"I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college."
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"Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed."
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"Dream like a child with complete faith and no limits. This is the only way the greatness within you can be awakened."
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"Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else."
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"Do you want to do something great? Find something that is distinctively smaller! Do you want to do something extraordinary? Do something ordinary in a distinctive way! Do you want to espouse an unpopular cause? Find the neglected solution to the general problem. Do you want to be distinctively popular? Think of what is distinctively unpopular."
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"You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live."
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"Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's."
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"I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me."
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"All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in absorbing his dreams, they had delivered him from an obsession, they themselves were, in turn, enriched by the absorption; they shewed him the palpable realisation of his fancies, and they interested his mind; they took shape and grew solid before his eyes, and at the same time they soothed his troubled heart."
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"You are only limited by your own imagination."
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"But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing it all down (all? - no: one thought in a hundred) I believe I get a little outside it. That's how I'd defend it to H. But ten to one she'd see a hole in the defence."
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"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read or a pencil and a penny version-book would be in my hand, to note the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas. Thus I lived with words."
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"You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page."
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"One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas."
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"The idea you implement is more important than the ideas you collect."
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"In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex manual to bed with him invites frigidity. Dancing, sex, writing a novel--all are a living process, quick thought, emotion making yet more quick thought, and so on, cycling round."
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"Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry."
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"No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business."
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"The secret is confusion, make it, create it, live it, be it."
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"These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands."
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"I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating."
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"Turn you dream machine on and create the world you wish to experience through your imagination."
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"I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."
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"When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination."
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"I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew."
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"The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's."
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"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
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"The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art."
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"The muse is the mystic force, but you are the master."
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"He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ..."
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"A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies."
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"One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future."
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"The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, reading your story, will catch fire, too?"
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"I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abyss of uncertainty whenever the mind feels that some part of it has strayed beyond its own borders; when it, the seeker, is at once the dark region through which it must go seeking, where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not so far exist, to which it alone can give reality and substance, which it alone can bring into the light of day."
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"Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas."
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"All writers are exiles: some by circumstance, some by choice."
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"Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas."
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"All my lifei have looked for poemsto elope with."
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