Quotes About Creativity

the Creative Economy is driven by the logic that seeks to fully harness—and no longer waste—human resources and talent.

If you are a scientist or engineer, an architect or designer, a writer, artist, or musician, or if your creativity is a key factor in your work in business, education, health care, law, or some other profession, you are a member.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

There might be symphonies of perfume, Mozarts of musk. Novelists might construct nasal narratives, versifiers sonnets of scent. Sculpture would entail subtleties of shape that only fingers trained through hundreds of millions of years of tactile evolution could discriminate.

Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude. It develops latent talent, sharpens your capacity to reason, to act, and to find purpose in life. It dispels loneliness and heartache. It gives a renewal, a spark of enthusiasm, and zest for life.

Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings . . . select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, "It makes me want to write poetry."

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient to living. It's a way of looking at life through a distorted telescope, and that's what makes you laugh at the terrible realities. Whimsy, which is a deliberate contradiction of reality, is pure escapism. And without whimsy, none of us can live." Fantasy and whimsy are not merely necessary for life; they are Dr. Seuss's stock-in-trade. But there are limits to their reach.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

The truly creative mind is hardly ever so much alone as when it is trying to be sociable. The

The writer is a kind of tuning-fork for a melody yet to be composed.

Horror writers are specialists in the worst-case scenario.

There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. ("Mad House")

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

Playing the violin or writing a poem are special ways of paying attention. They are acts at once small and great. Although only one person can commit them, they require orderly marshallings of countless and diverse forces, something like the great landing of armies in Normandy, but incalculably bigger and more complicated.

Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you

We write by the light of every book we've read.