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Creativity Quotes
"My mind is like a Zoo with no cages... Watch where you step."
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"I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel."
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"Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about."
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"All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works."
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"Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted."
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"I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job."
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"If we don't manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a world of withering expectations, we have to rewrite the script of our life. ['Into a new life']"
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"When you imagine it, feel it, then write it - creation is inevitable."
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"Are you considering becoming a creative person? Too late, you already are one. To even call somebody "a creative person" is almost laughably redundant; creativity is the hallmark of our species. We have the sense for it; we have the curiosity for it; we have the opposable thumbs for it; we have the rhythm for it; we have the language and the excitement and the innate connection to divinity for it.If you're alive, you're a creative person. You and I and everyone you know are descended from tens of thousands of years of makers. Decorators, tinkerers, storytellers, dancers, explorers, fiddlers, drummers, builders, growers, problem-solvers, and embellishers--these are our common ancestors."
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"But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient."
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"The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs."
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"I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery."
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"Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's."
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"Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out."
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"But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing it all down (all? - no: one thought in a hundred) I believe I get a little outside it. That's how I'd defend it to H. But ten to one she'd see a hole in the defence."
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"Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach."
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"Write the masterpiece that has not been written. Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung. Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted. Create the masterpiece that has not been created."
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"Turn you dream machine on and create the world you wish to experience through your imagination."
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"Dreams create hope, energy and passion and together reveal your hidden abilities and untapped potential."
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"Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world."
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"There is a muse, but he's not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer station. He lives in the ground. He's a basement guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in. You have to do all the grunt labor, in other words, while the muse sits and smokes cigars and admires his bowling trophies and pretends to ignore you."
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"The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's."
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"The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art."
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"The muse is the mystic force, but you are the master."
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"Creativity requires openness and growth mind to new experiences and explore new possibilities."
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"All writers are exiles: some by circumstance, some by choice."
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"If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer."
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"When you're at a loss for words. Draw a picture."
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"Shrink wrapped ideas and prefabricated thoughts are a result of sloth and laziness. ['PrAat-A -penser']"
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"I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!"
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"Never allow yourself to be sapped of your extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive."
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"I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity."
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"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
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"We are inspired to write by divine force."
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"A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought."
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"It does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo."
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"Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it."
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"Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination."
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"A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination."
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"Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Lightthrough whom is splintered from a single Whiteto many hues, and endlessly combinedin living shapes that move from mind to mind."
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"In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee."
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"People certainly will love what you write, when you represent them in your words."
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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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"A writer must pay attention his or her surroundings."
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"Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up."
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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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"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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