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Creativity Quotes
"As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist."
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"A book is a dream you hold in your hands."
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"You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet."
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"Art is a language which everyone understands in their own way."
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"If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side."
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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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"Don't try to compete, Create!Don't try to compare, Dominate!Don't try to complain, Change!And don't just try, Commit!This is the moment that can change your life forever!"
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"I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over."
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"It has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting."
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"I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think-no, you will realize-that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying."
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"Whatever thing the mind can imagine, the eyes can see, the hands will soon handle."
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"Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens."
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"The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic."
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"I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope."
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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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"Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard."
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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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"Niall had been able to mask the odor of fairy from Eric in the restaurant, but I saw from the flare of Eric's nostrils that the intoxicating scent clung to me. Eric's eyes closed in ecstasy, and he actually licked his lips. I felt like a T - bone just out of reach of a hungry dog. 'Snap out of it, ' I said. I wasn't in the mood.With a huge effort, Eric reigned himself in. 'When you smell like that, ' he said, 'I just wanna fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you."
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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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"YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode."
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"To create is to be divine."
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"Do more than just exist, create to inspire!"
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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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"The spark of wondering is the start of writing."
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"After life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art."
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"POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS."
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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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"You can't teach creativity at film school."
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"Writing a novel is agony."
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"Poetry is Life. We experience poetry from the time we awake each morning and inhale that fresh breath of air. You are living poetry. Poetry is not defined by the laws of man. Inspiration is the key."
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"It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book."
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"When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness."
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"Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality."
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"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 possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
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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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"I have a visual imagination."
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"We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?"
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"Rain is nature's art; umbrella is man's art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts!"
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"An idea that does not take some risks, is probably an idea not worth taking."
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"Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony."
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"Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us."
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"I write in seconds. I don't stop. I don't think. I simply write and when it comes, it flows and it makes sense because it's genuine. I don't understand thought-out poetry. It doesn't seem real to me."
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"Creative living is a path for the brave."
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"I simply vowed to the universe that I would write forever, regardless of the result. I promised that I would try to be brave about it, and grateful, and as uncomplaining as I could possibly be. I also promised that I would never ask writing to take care of me financially, but that I would always take care of it - meaning that I would always support us both, by any means necessary. I did not ask for any external rewards for my devotion; I just wanted to spend the rest of my life as near to writing as possible - forever close to that source of all my curiosity and contentment."
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"Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic."
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"We learn to create, we create to improve life and to teach. Creative ideas and creating are the essence of life."
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