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Creativity Quotes
"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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"Creativity flourishes in solitude."
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"Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet."
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"A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them, and the publick to whom he appeals, must, after all, be the judges of his pretensions."
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"If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer."
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"Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard."
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"In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition."
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"If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life."
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"Some people contend that there are no new ideas and everything under the sun has already been created. Thankfully, innovation and regeneration continue to prove otherwise. New and amazing innovations are born every day from the regeneration of ideas and creativity. How can you create something brand new using your current resources?"
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"It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway."
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"Shrink wrapped ideas and prefabricated thoughts are a result of sloth and laziness. ['PrAat-A -penser']"
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"Creativity is like a muscle, you must exercise it daily or it atrophies."
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"He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest ideas (both good and spectacularly bad) suddenly burst forth, often full-blown."
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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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"The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning."
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"He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts."
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"I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career."
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"He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written."
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"Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe me. The human world is made up of stories, not people."
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"Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job."
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"I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!"
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"I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity."
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"I prioritize my creative pleasure. I enjoy expressing my artistic side and receive the gifts of doing so."
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"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
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"I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself with trivialities - as if your love could be any more complete. But I write, in the first place,because of you, my muse. I write for your green eyes to glance at my humble words and for the pleasure of hearing you utter them."
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"Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it."
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"The most powerful creative state to bring your desires into reality is by bring the conscious and subconscious into unison then keeping your heart and mind in perfect sync."
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"Music is feelings in search of words."
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"I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
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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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"If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?"
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"The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets."
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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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"It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to."
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"PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration."
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"Poverty is the origin of invention."
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"The reflection of chaos is creativity."
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"He who doesn't fear his own imagination...is not worthy to envision."
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"How....will I ever truly depict you?You're perfect, my writing isn't."
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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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"My pen beats faster as I write with my heart."
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"My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."
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"A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination."
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"It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious."
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