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Creativity Quotes
"If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you."
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"The secret is writing down one simple line after another."
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"We have reached a time where we are suppressing talents in our communities with our common thinking."
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"Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you."
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"Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action."
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"Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."
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"I'm an author. We don't want to lead. We don't need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people's heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don't. We never know. We just make stuff up."
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"My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head."
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"A creative person is never a copy; they are always original."
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"On the blank page all things are possible."
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"You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink."
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"Every thought you cultivate is a brushstroke on the canvas of your life. Your life then, is an outer picture of your inner thoughts."
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"Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process, frustration is the process."
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"Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don't have the fucking part in writing a book."
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"Creativity is a passion for some who are inquisitive and want to explore new possibilities."
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"You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't."
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"When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down."
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"Yeah, I'm working on the 7 volume of "The Life Of One Kid", but the cover it's not written 7 volume..."
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"Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing."
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"Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them."
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"You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page."
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"You can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one.."
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"Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of."
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"If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time."
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"You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before."
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"My pen shall heal, not hurt."
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"We are writing the history of our time."
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"When you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while."
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"Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
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"Your mind, your motion and your expression is an animation to marvel and to praise."
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"Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!"
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"Learn the art of bringing your dreams alive within your own reality."
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"Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. 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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"You think the thing, draw the picture and then it happens."
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"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
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"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
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"It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid."
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"I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness, indecent spirituality, obscene beauty, monstrous creativity, barbaric embellishments, contemptuous passion, sinful childhood traumas, unscrupulous hobbies, vexatious caring, abominable sensitivity, reprehensible humor, hideous sarcasm, displeasing feelings, unpalatable confidence, offensive compassion, villainous inspiration and a devilish wit. I am quite grotesque in my imperfectness and I am not ashamed to admit it."
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"A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant."
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"He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves."
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"When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing."
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"I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands."
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"Sometimes even the imagination lets one down."
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"A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine."
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"Imagination is glow of thoughts by supernatural force."
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"Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.With your own voice,' he said."
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"Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there."
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"To help you fill in the details of the world you are creating, imagine that your characters inhabit a real world. Daydream what it would be like to be there. What would your characters eat, what would they talk about, where would they get their supplies, etc. Keep asking the question, "What happens next? Show your characters actions and write down their thoughts."
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