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Creativity Quotes
"The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it."
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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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"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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"When you are writing you're creating beauty for mind."
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"Teach me to sing and recite,To whistle and jingle and strum.Teach me to color and paint,To sculpt and weave and create.Teach me to sway and dance,To tap and leap and twirl.Teach me to laugh and giggle,To tickle and play and pretend.Teach me that life is beautiful."
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"When you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself..."
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"The show must go on, and so must The Book."
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"A masterpiece does not unfurl its wings immediately. It takes time. It will fly when it is ready."
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"I routinely use my blue sky "Device" and it works very well for me."
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"The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words."
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"You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference."
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"Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds."
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"I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer."
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"The first and most important step to being more creative is to believe you are a creative person!"
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"All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece."
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"The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality."
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"Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'."
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"I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining."
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"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
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"Creating is the closest thing to being immortal."
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"There are many ways to manifest, but the most effective and joyous creators all create in the space of love."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway."
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"Comedy writers don't join fraternities.''Don't pigeon hole me, Georgie, I'm infinite."
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"Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create..."
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"Broken pencils still write beautiful songs."
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"You can't manage a project. You can only mange your thoughts to come up with better ideas to do the project in a better way."
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"I think it is just a matter of getting into the mind of the writer, Vetinari went on, looking at a letter covered with grubby fingerprints and what looked like the remains of someone's breakfast. He added: "In some cases, I imagine, there is a lot of room."
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"Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened."
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"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
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"Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts."
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"Let your imagination takes you to where you wish to be."
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"Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to the conscious, which they later turn to readable materials. Artist do not draw and paint without painting in dream states, trance, or see an art form that others do not see. Being creative does not calls for being any supernatural entity, but in creating with the entities inside of you."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"You paint the picture of your surroundings. Paint it beautifully."
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"Ideas were found by the freethinker, expressed by poet with the new words,formulated by scholar into knowledge."
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"Doing better is creativity, doing faster is creativity, doing smarter is creativity, doing right is creativity."
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"As we write we summon little demons."
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"My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was a small girl. Pianos, of course, came complete with the quintessential piano teacher who whacked my hand with a stick each time I struck the wrong key. I learned a few pieces, yes, but eventually my pen compelled me to write too much and the sound of the leaves rustling in the wind compelled me to climb trees too often. Sorry mom. Coincidentally, books come from trees and flipping the pages sounds like wind through leaves... hhhmmmm... I guess I'm still just climbing trees now, but in a different way!"
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"Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise."
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"The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint."
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"My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer."
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"First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written."
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"Beauty was not simply something to behold, it was something one could do."
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"Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for."
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"It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them."
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"Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off)."
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