Quotes About Creativity

You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that's what my mother made me.

You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that is what my mother made me.

Because—and don't let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.

True, Jedediah Halsey's Sans Souci hadn't been so much foolish as "visionary," which, as everyone knew, was what you called a foolish idea that worked anyway.

I write about it not because I understand it, but because I don't.

Indeed, a good hint that you've entered the realm of Art is that you immediately feel like giving up.

I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

the tricksterlike unpredictable spontaneity of the divine

We're not copying life, we're making a comment on it.

would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger of life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human

The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged concentration upon it, while the politician emphasizes the impersonal aspect of life by his attempts to fit men into groups.

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.

Sweep away the clouds And let a dome of blue sky Give this sea a name!

I wanted to try to build a bridge of words between me and that world outside, that world which was so distant and elusive that it seemed unreal. I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human.

This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me.

A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.

And I'm the only one who gets to dress up! And I can't wait to wear it! It's like cotton candy!" Roo arched an eyebrow. "Sticky?" "No! All pink and fluffy and…sweet. I love the way I feel in it." "I agree," Parker said hoarsely. "I love the way you feel in it, too. And I love the way you feel out of it even better." Roo stared at him. "Wow. You should write greeting cards.

You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.

The sole purpose of all the other work was just to buy time to be still for a moment and write.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.