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Creativity Quotes
"The riches of adversity, we were made thinkers and writers."
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"I write because there are things in me that cannot die."
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"Imagination is a reality."
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"The fear of criticism stagnates the power of creativity."
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"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
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"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."
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"I remember stories. I connect the dots and then out of that comes a story. And the dots that don't fit into the story just slide away, maybe. Like when you spot a constellation. You look up and you don't want to see all the stars. All the stars just look like the big...mess that they are. But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky."
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"What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?"
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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."
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"I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul."
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"If you have a painting in you, paint. If you have a song to sing, sing. Don't judge your creation. Just create it. Banish doubt and fear and step out of your own way if you have to. Write if you're a writer and invent if you're an inventor. Do what you were born to do. Only then will you know a remarkable life."
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"The magic of reading happens when an author's written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently-perhaps dwelt in for years."
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"I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living."
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"If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles."
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"Explore the power of creativity."
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"Imagination is phenomenal."
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"Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees."
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"Imagination can take you to any place of interest."
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"Creativity is the art and science of expressing inner beauty."
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"Writing is just building a new world " one character, one place, one maniac at a time."
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"Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality."
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"Only by creating out of love will one achieve true greatness."
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"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."
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"Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal."
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"Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, "Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing!"
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"As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!"
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"Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it."
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"A writer walks in nature to wonder."
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"Writing is a sacred passion."
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"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
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"Stop thinking. Start Dreaming."
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"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."
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"As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul."
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"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"A divine great spirit put awe-words on my mind, my sacred-duty is the writing."
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"An imaginative mind is a place where you can find magic."
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"It feels great to read but greater to write."
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"Are you thinking? Are you creating? Ask yourself whenever you feel boring?"
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"If it doesn't come bursting out of youin spite of everything,don't do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut,don't do it."
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"If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!"
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"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."
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"I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer."
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"No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!"
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"Dance with your rhythm."
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"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
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"Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together''Yeah, well, that's a whole different thing.'(from Honey Pie)"
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"A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader's mind."
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"If you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too restless, tremorous, agitated, too mad to sit at a desk eight hours a day, you needed an institution - a higher institution."
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