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Creativity Quotes
"Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!"
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"Fantastic ideas often come from fantasy."
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"They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men."
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"Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed."
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"Art is a gun and medicine at the same time."
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"It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write."
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"In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day."
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"You ought to write down the glow of thoughts as it's ignites."
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"If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers."
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"Short stories are great start, but if they are true that's the best start so far in about 222 short stories I have viewed and I have already shared them in the book series Reddit Collection."
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"Get your idea into image and find ways to convert it into tangible product."
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"An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully."
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"Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it."
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"Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you."
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"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."
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"Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad."
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"Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know."
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"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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"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
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"The power of writing supernaturally set things into motion."
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"Do you want to do something great? Find something that is distinctively smaller! Do you want to do something extraordinary? Do something ordinary in a distinctive way! Do you want to espouse an unpopular cause? Find the neglected solution to the general problem. Do you want to be distinctively popular? Think of what is distinctively unpopular."
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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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"All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in absorbing his dreams, they had delivered him from an obsession, they themselves were, in turn, enriched by the absorption; they shewed him the palpable realisation of his fancies, and they interested his mind; they took shape and grew solid before his eyes, and at the same time they soothed his troubled heart."
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"These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands."
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"I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating."
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"When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination."
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"If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod."
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"He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ..."
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"A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies."
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"Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving."
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"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
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"The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist."
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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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"In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition."
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"Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there..."
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"Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job."
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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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"A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with."
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"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent."
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"Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it."
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"I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least."
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"The pen is as wise as the mind that speaks through it."
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"Music is feelings in search of words."
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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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"If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever."
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"The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses."
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"Poverty is the origin of invention."
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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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