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Creativity Quotes


"Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise."



"My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer."


"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."


"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."


"The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind."


"You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference."


"I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness, indecent spirituality, obscene beauty, monstrous creativity, barbaric embellishments, contemptuous passion, sinful childhood traumas, unscrupulous hobbies, vexatious caring, abominable sensitivity, reprehensible humor, hideous sarcasm, displeasing feelings, unpalatable confidence, offensive compassion, villainous inspiration and a devilish wit. I am quite grotesque in my imperfectness and I am not ashamed to admit it."


"Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for."


"Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young."


"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."


"An innovative mind allows "the creative flow to open up for information abundance."


"Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment."


"It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them."


"He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves."


"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."


"When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing."


"I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands."


"A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader's mind."



"As you get connection with the higher source, your creativity increases."


"Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence."


"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."


"Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority."


"The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees' brainpower."


"You can make anything by writing."


"A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine."


"Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there."


"It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one."


"One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh."


"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."


"The personal screenplay- where you dive into the terrifying depths of your soul, unearth the most intimate details about yourself, and put it on paper for the world to see. Proceed with caution, for madness lies ahead."


"We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege of finding."


"The old author knew all too well that the imagination was a top cause for missing good meals."


"Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all."


"Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination."


"The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires."


"Imagination is a roller coaster ride in search of ideas and beauty into the wonderland of subconscious and conscious mind."


"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."


"Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion."


"Natural art is the most amazing form of art there is."


"Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense."


"I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire."


"Wondering and writing constitute positive madness."


"The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?""


"I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles-your Magus of words."


"Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person."


"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."


"Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."


"What else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?..."


"Imagination is a process of seeing events or things with the minds eye."


"The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason."
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