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Creativity Quotes
"Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies."
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"Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia."
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"When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water."
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"Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week."
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"I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit."
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"There is this one thing that makes a big difference: creativity! There is this one thing that gives birth to great things: imaginations! The world we see is a product of creativity and imaginations, and they that know the power of creativity and how to give life to their imaginations live and leave distinctive footprints!"
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"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
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"Live life with creative purpose."
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"Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes."
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"As you get connection with the higher source, your creativity increases."
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"We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page."
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"The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees' brainpower."
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"We fucked a flame into being."
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"It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one."
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"I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck."
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"My best advice is to first write for yourself and stay in your story and just pour all of your good stuff and bad stuff into it. By 'stuff,' I mean all the experiences and pleasures and little hurts that make up a life. Because even (and especially) the really hard experiences are worth having, if you can channel those emotions into something beautiful."
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"Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows."
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"There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing."
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"At its most basic we are only discussing a learned skill, but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things far beyond our expectations? We are talking about tools and carpentry, about words and style...but as we move along, you'd do well to remember that we are also talking about magic."
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"How to Be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, and skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity.
Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens. Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came."
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"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."
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"As with writing by candlelight, one's greatest ideas come from 'the flickering' between darkness and light."
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"My characters will happily march off a cliff if it is in them to do so, but may the gods help me if I write that the character is an alcoholic when they are not. They will fight me at every turn and it is their domain. A writer cannot win against a stubborn character."
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"What else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?..."
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"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."
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"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
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"I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated."
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"Caged birds still sing beautiful symphonies."
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"Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing."
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"Creativity is a massive and the sharpest voice that reaches every corner of the globe."
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"The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good."
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"An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity."
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"Think out of the box but stay in the yard."
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"Creativity is the work of your hands or the work of your tongue so you have to be careful what you say because it would cost you big time."
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"I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway."
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"Create in your mind a picture of what you want and then live that vision as if it already exists."
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"The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success."
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"You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that."
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"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
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"If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
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"While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy."
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"WHILE writing, just try to have fun with your ms. Enjoy the process, but push on. Always push toward the finish line!"
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"In creating the only hard thing's to begin. A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak."
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"You can't let fear and indecision sink your creativity-they do not easily release their hold."
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"Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start."
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"A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words-the bride-and spaces-the groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it's yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat's others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess."
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"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."
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"Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand."
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"The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit."
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"Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers."
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