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Creativity Quotes
"For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone."
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"If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another."
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"The power of writing supernaturally set things into motion."
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"When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from."
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"Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable."
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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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"Why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much- Mark Twain ...that's why ..."
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"Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done-so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well."
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"We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit."
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"Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world."
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"To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion."
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"In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?"
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"Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality."
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"My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite."
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"Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving."
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"You're too sane for a lunatic girl like me. You live in reality, while I tango in the jungle of my imagination making love to firecracker dreams."
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"Creativity requires openness and growth mind to new experiences and explore new possibilities."
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"Only by creating out of love will one achieve true greatness."
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"Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love."
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"Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words."
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"Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind."
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"Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way."
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"Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job."
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"A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation."
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"I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer."
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"If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever."
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"Adams has done a bit of everything, from radio to television to designing computer games. Not all of them worked out. "These are life's little learning experiences, he said. "You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' "At the end of all this being-determined-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades, I think I'm better off just sitting down and putting a hundred thousand words in a cunning order. Adams writes "slowly and painfully. "People assume you sit in a room, looking pensive and writing great thoughts, he said. "But you mostly sit in a room looking panic-stricken and hoping they haven't put a guard on the door yet."
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"Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor."
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"We are inspired to write by divine force."
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"I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least."
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"Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story."
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"Create a character with an obsession, then follow."
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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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"The pen is as wise as the mind that speaks through it."
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"...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
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"The spark of wondering is the start of writing."
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"The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses."
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"I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination."
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"To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say."
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"POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS."
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"You must begin writing your life book."
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"We must thank to the crazy people because by looking at their achievements or the failures, we can decide whether we have to inject some craziness to our own lives or not!"
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"If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice."
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"People certainly will love what you write, when you represent them in your words."
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"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."
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"Art expresses those unexplainable thoughts of our soul."
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"Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal."
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