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Creativity Quotes
"It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious."
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"After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head-for creative invention is easy and sublime when air cycles quickly through the lungs and the body is busy at noble tasks."
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"Write and people will come to read. Write and people will heed to your words and share them with others. Not all may relate, but wait, and those who were meant to see it eventually will find it, for truth waits to be found. It searches for no one."
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"I go on writing so that I will always have something to read."
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"Writing a novel is agony."
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"It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book."
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"People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two."
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"To me, imagination is about breaking down the walls of a reality of multiple interpretations, and truly opening up your mind to assemble one clear interpretation. Once you have tasted imagination, reality will no longer be enough for you. The line between reality and dreams will become blurred, and then clear, because the line will cease to exist. Once you reach the point of living in imagination, you will truly be free."
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"Writing ink is the magic that allows nothing to become something. It catches the fleeting idea and seeks out the glances of those who wish to see. Even a random ink splat will mean something to someone."
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"Creative people are optimistic realists to discover versatility."
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"The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak."
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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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"When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness."
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"You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life."
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"The show must go on, and so must The Book."
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"I didn't know the value of creation until I did it. Once I tasted imagination, I knew that I was trapped. I knew that I could never look back. At this point in my life, reality simply isn't enough for me. Dreams simply aren't enough for me. I need something more. I need to live in imagination. I need to become imagination."
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"Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified."
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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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"The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words."
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"I write because I cannot NOT write."
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"In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work."
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"There can be no forced inspiration."
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"Creativity happens when you allow existence to flow through you."
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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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"Stop treating your creativity like it's a tired, old, unhappy marriage (a grind, a drag) and start regarding it with the fresh eyes of a passionate lover. Even if you have only fifteen minutes a day in a stairwell alone with your creativity, take it. Go hide in that stairwell and make out with your art."
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"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
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"I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer."
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"I like working among 'creative clutter'. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement."
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"An idea that does not take some risks, is probably an idea not worth taking."
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"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."
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"What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write."
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"LABOUR is effort, while ART is effortless! What are you?"
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"You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations."
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"It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed through my words. I want to get all fucked up and write real and raw and ugly and beautifully. I bet you're sleeping safe and calm, and you can stay there, it's safer there, and you wouldn't stand one night on this journey my mind wanders off to every night you close your eyes. I'll stay here one day and I will never come down. I promise I can fly before I hit the ground. It doesn't even hurt anymore. I swear, it doesn't hurt."
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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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"A creative person is never a copy; they are always original."
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"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
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"Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking."
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"The amazing feeling that triggers the fountain of words that flow in my belly."
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"In soul of every newborn baby, words are waiting to be written."
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"Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us."
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"For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."
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"And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like a child at an aquarium that was thought to be without fish. Others will step of the shadows like Boo Radley and make you catch your breath or take a step backward. They're often so rich, these unbidden thoughts, and so clear that they feel indelible. But I say write them all down anyway."
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"Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway."
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"Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think "harder via different thought processes."
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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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"Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here."
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