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Creativity Quotes
"Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material."
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"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."
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"It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough."
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"Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas."
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"The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea."
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"We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done."
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"The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others."
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"Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within."
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"Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others."
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"Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office."
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"We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea."
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"I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?"
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"Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us."
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"Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses."
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"In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public."
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"The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view."
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"The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it."
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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
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"So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn."
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"Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist."
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"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good."
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"True creativity often starts where language ends."
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"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
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"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."
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"To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages."
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"A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd."
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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
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"As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing."
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"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed, but a thing created is loved before it exists."
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"How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all."
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"In order to create an idea... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your own idea. The idea will grow to define your entire life. And when you die... you don't."
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"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
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"Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything."
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"Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch."
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"The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end."
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"For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique."
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"I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer."
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"If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, 'When you're ready'."
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"With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
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"What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years."
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"Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else."
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"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal."
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"An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea."
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"I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think."
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"The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it."
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"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."
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"I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments."
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