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Creativity Quotes
"The personal screenplay- where you dive into the terrifying depths of your soul, unearth the most intimate details about yourself, and put it on paper for the world to see. Proceed with caution, for madness lies ahead."
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"The old author knew all too well that the imagination was a top cause for missing good meals."
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"The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity.Those of use who struggle in our own ways, small or great, trickles or rivers, to create, are constantly having to unlearn what the world would teach us..."
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"You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!"
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"Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense."
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"I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire."
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"Wondering and writing constitute positive madness."
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"To dive in the darkness, I should dive in the truth, then in images of the world..., then facts, then in books, then listening, then in short stories... that's how I write the horror. It's very complicated."
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"The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?""
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"Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure."
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"Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me."
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"The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world."
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"There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one."
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"Subconsciousness is quick and efficient and sometimes can spur creativity."
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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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"A single poem, alonecan turn tidesscatter galaxiesand burst forth with riversfrom paradise."
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"My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers."
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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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"We write from soul of the heart."
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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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"A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo."
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"If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost."
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"Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe."
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"My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."
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"I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events."
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"My pond life with hydra is over, now I'm into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper.."
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"Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas."
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"I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together."
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"A little creativity can make something ordinary, extraordinary, and something extraordinary that much more so."
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"Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps."
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"Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life."
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"Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your beloved iPhone. Madness got you that."
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"When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened."
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"Chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets."
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"Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry."
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"Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules."
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"Each of us has the ability to invent."
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"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."
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"During these three months I have gone through much; I mean, I have gone through much in myself; and now there are the things I am going to see and go through. There will be much to be written."
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"For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope."
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"The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one's mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible."
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"Dreamers do not believe in power, they believe in imagination the source of creativity."
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"Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!"
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"99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters."
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"Never durst a poet touch a pen to writeUntil his ink was tempered with love's sighs."
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"At the very basic level all people are creators. We are all creating at every moment."
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"I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity."
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"We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out."
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"Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense."
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"Always think in circles to get your ideas around."
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