Quotes About Creativity

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it

If you can't see the joy and wonder to be found in genre fiction, that's your problem, not mine.

If I believed people who told me you can't make a living as a writer, I wouldn't be making a living as a writer.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

Well, if this is poetry, it is very easy to write.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

If you can't find the book you want to read, write it.

Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.

You can't lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.

Good writing is rhythm.

If instead of just clay I could take all the prettiest things Like a rainbow, Or clouds or the way a bird sings, Maybe then, dearest Mommy, If I put them all together, I could really make a sculpture of you.

To keep up with the times these days, it seems you have to be a little bit demented. — "William F. Kinderman".

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

The cat language is very complex," Shawn said. "If a cat had written the Harry Potter books, he could have gotten through the whole thing in fifteen pages, tops. And he would still have found the space to mention

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

The brain is evolutionarily hard-wired to do its best daydreaming only when it senses that it is safe to do so—when, in short, it is relaxed. In Kounios's words, "The relaxation phase is crucial.5 That's why so many insights happen during warm showers." Or during Sunday afternoon walks on Glasgow Green, when the idea of a separate condenser seems to have excited the aSTG in the skull of James Watt. Eureka indeed.

Incised in the stone over the Herbert C. Hoover Building's north entrance is the legend that, with Lincoln's characteristic brevity, sums up the single most powerful idea in the world: THE PATENT SYSTEM ADDED THE FUEL OF INTEREST TO THE FIRE OF GENIUS

By the 1990s, Ericsson's research was demonstrating2 that the same phenomenon he had first discovered among concert violinists also applied to the creation of innovations: that the cost of becoming consistently productive at creative inventing is ten thousand hours of practice—five to seven years—just as it is for music, athletics, and chess.

The hands of a pianist, or a painter, or a sushi chef, or even, as with Thomas Newcomen, hands that could use a hammer to shape soft iron, are truly, in any functional sense,