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Creativity Quotes
"Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority."
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"You can make anything by writing."
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"I do have a funny perception of mine I'd like to share. Being basically a lifetime poet. I've had many people say "I don't like poetry" But they'll listen to song after song that rhymes on the end in couplets Just a thought..."
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"One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh."
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"Imagination is a roller coaster ride in search of ideas and beauty into the wonderland of subconscious and conscious mind."
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"Natural art is the most amazing form of art there is."
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"A writer's uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader."
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"Be creative."
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"Imagination is a process of seeing events or things with the minds eye."
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"Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow."
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"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."
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"If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do."
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"People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry."
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"Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves."
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"Creativity is utilizing both sides of the brain simultaneously - creative + activity."
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"In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true."
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"I like bubbles in everything. I respect the power of silence. In cold or warm weather I favor a mug of hot cocoa. I admire cats-their autonomy, grace, and mystery. I awe at the fiery colors in a sunset. I believe in deity. I hear most often with my eyes, and I will trust a facial expression before any accompanying comment. I invent rules, words, adventures, and imaginary friends. I pretend something wonderful every day. I will never quit pretending."
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"His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own."
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"A garden is never beautiful by accident."
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"If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird's wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I'm pretty sure that's it!"
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"I write more with the words I leave out."
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"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."
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"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship."
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"How many people make a career out of writing anyway?' Cath snapped. She felt like everything inside her was snapping. Her nerves. Her temper. Her esophagus. 'I'll write because I love it, the way other people knit or . . . or scrapbook. And I'll find some other way to make money."
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"A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard."
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"Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts."
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"A sequel that will exist just for us."
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"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected."
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"You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts, it will be beautiful."
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"A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap."
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"What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape."
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"If you can imagine a thing,then it has already existed,somewhere, somewhen, somehow."
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"Now Leroux, what think youOf this twist to the story?"
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"The beauty of inspiration is its unpredictable timing."
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"Imagination is glorious riches of mystery."
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"The idea of the original had no place."
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"Let your actions sing the best melody of life so that everyone can joyfully listen to it."
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"An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it."
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"Imagination is a spark of a divine light."
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"When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth."
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"Whenever I encounter writer's block, I stop writing - with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs."
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"When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world."
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"Random makes you smart, random music makes your smart. So keep in touch with random, because random is your friend!"
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"The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen."
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"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."
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"The creative person has to dissolve all should and should nots. He needs freedom and space, vast space; he needs the whole sky and all the stars. Only then can his innermost spontaneity start growing."
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"When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds."
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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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