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Creativity Quotes
"No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly."
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"Sometimes i think there must be a sort of pollen of ideas floating in the air, which fertilizes similarly minds here and there which have not had direct contact."
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"Wait. Take your foot off the pedal. Instead, let your creativity drive you."
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"Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured."
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"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
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"Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is."
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"Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs."
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"Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all."
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"The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global."
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"Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop, suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head."
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"It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine."
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"This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy."
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"Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them."
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"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."
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"We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas."
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"You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter...having lost the song, we pursue the singer. We learn from the singer the technique of song, but there is no song; and I say the song is essential, the joy of singing is essential. When the joy is there, the technique can be built up from nothing; you will invent your own technique, you won't have to study elocution or style. When you have, you see, and the very seeing of beauty is an art."
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"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
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"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas."
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"No matter how different you are, your idea is, your art, your writing, your product, your concept, show it to the world. Just do it. Show who you are to the world. This is what you are here to do."
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"Imagination can turn any situation into a positive situation. Let your creativity run wild. Let yourself create new worlds, new times and new thoughts. Don't think yourself immature for having fun in dull times. Let that creativity flow into your everyday life and create beautiful new experiences."
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"Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free."
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"That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you."
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"Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat."
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"A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing."
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"Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy."
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"Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water."
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"A little conflict can create a lot of creativity."
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"We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts."
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"Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think."
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"There are those who speak and those who dream."
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"Yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams."
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"My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me."
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"Dissatisfaction with status quo is the psychology behind creative disruptions."
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"I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions."
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"Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am, Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary."
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"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."
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"The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first."
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"Inspiration ends when reading ends."
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"Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone."
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"The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means."
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"I said during the course of the campaign I didn't like it and I don't like the idea of having an opponent's picture on your ads and it would be nice to see candidates sign a pledge like that."
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"So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination."
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"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding."
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"We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes."
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"Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around."
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