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Creativity Quotes
"The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason."
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"I could either succumb to the nightmares I've raised or paint them."
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"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."
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"You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful."
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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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"Subconsciousness is quick and efficient and sometimes can spur creativity."
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"Have you thought of doing it? Being a cattle farmer? If that's what it's called? I think we should do that, but replace cattle with bunnies and then we don't milk or eat the bunnies. We just let them multiply. Then we'll take over the world. Me the queen. You the king. Our bunnies the army nobody can defeat."
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"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
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"I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace."
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"All people are musicians', Wit countered. 'The question is whether or not they share their songs.'"
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"People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry."
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"At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air."
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"I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess."
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"I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of Oscar Wilde, I want to do the wide sultry heavens of Conrad, the rolled-gold sundowns and crazy-quilt skies of Hitchens and Kipling as well as the pastel dawns and twilights of Chesterton. All that is by way of example. As a matter of fact I am a professed literary thief, hot after the best methods of every writer in my generation."
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"My imagination is a twisted place."
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"For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about."
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"Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves."
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"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
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"All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories."
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"The more mindless the task, the higher probability of subconscious disruption can stimulate creativity."
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"Creativity is utilizing both sides of the brain simultaneously - creative + activity."
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"Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs."
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"But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write."
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"The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside.But on the inside there is nothing-only the bare gingerbread walls.It is not a real house-not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room.That's when the stories can move in.They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite."
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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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"To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!"
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"Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure."
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"Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! À bas l'originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight."
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"I like bubbles in everything. I respect the power of silence. In cold or warm weather I favor a mug of hot cocoa. I admire cats-their autonomy, grace, and mystery. I awe at the fiery colors in a sunset. I believe in deity. I hear most often with my eyes, and I will trust a facial expression before any accompanying comment. I invent rules, words, adventures, and imaginary friends. I pretend something wonderful every day. I will never quit pretending."
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"I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down."
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"Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase."
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"Art doesn't bare itself to just anyone, but to believers called artists."
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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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"A garden is never beautiful by accident."
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"I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im."
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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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"I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
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"For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed."
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"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
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"Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen."
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"I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced..."
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"The riches of adversity, we were made thinkers and writers."
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"Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them."
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"Creativity comes from curious, intuitive, persistent action."
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"It's amazing what you can do when you get creative."
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"If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird's wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I'm pretty sure that's it!"
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"Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be."
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"Writers are the ink of society."
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