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Creativity Quotes
"Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing."
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"Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover."
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"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
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"I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody."
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"A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it."
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"How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life."
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"Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember."
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"Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination."
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"Each of us has the ability to create."
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"I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child."
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"Brilliance is the masterpiece of your mind. Excellence is the masterpiece of your heart. Genius is the masterpiece of your soul."
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"He felt as he always did when he finished a book - queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity."
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"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."
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"Being creative, joyful, happy, and beloved are the ultimate purposes of a profound life."
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"Creativity means bringing simplicity to the existing."
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"We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away."
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"You see, I'm a juggler with words myself."
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"How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way."
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"I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric."
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"Unlike Alice, Garp was a real writer -not because he wrote more beautifully than she wrote but because he knew what every artist should know: as Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions. Garp did not write faster than anyone else, or more; he simply always worked with the idea of completion in mind."
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"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."
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"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."
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"When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy."
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"No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject."
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"You look especially beautiful this morning, Monza.'That brought a smile to the corner of her mouth. The corner he couldn't see. 'Well. Facts are facts."
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"I think I'll dismember the world and then I'll dance in the wreckage."
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"Develop the daily habit of visualisation and dreaming by consciously seeing a better and brighter future through your mind's eye."
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"Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression of my very self which is inexpressible due to the shortcomings of my particular nature."
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"Get in touch with your intuitive and creative powers, bring your desires to life in order to create a life of bliss."
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"The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could be to anybody, for I did not know that it was in me. If any had asked me a single day before if it was in me, I should have told them frankly no, it was not.That is the way with us; we may go on half of our life not knowing such a thing is in us, when in reality it was there all the time, and all we needed was something to turn up that would call for it."
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"Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore."
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"A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit."
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"You can either be creative or competitive, but not both."
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"You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed."
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"When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place."
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"Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others."
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"If you see her staring into space, probably her mind is in a deep poetic embrace or a story is brewing in her clever little head. This girl is in a trance, it will pass, just let her be until she has completed her beautiful internal dance."
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"When you write from the heart, it is always beautiful."
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"Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you're sure to receive."
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"A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even to the great souls."
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"There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity."
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"Writers don't write about just anybody."
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"A Writer Drenched in Words is Never Caught in a Dry Spell."
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"Imagination takes us to the invisible world."
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"If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit."
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"Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain."
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"Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second."
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"If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen."
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"If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write."
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