Quotes About Creativity

one of the smartest ways to write fiction today is to say that you're not, and then to do whatever you very well please. Fiction writers, take note. Some of the best fiction is now being written as nonfiction.

I'm drawn to literature instead as a form of thinking

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means.

Il progresso della crescita artistica in molti media viene rallentato, come quei poveri alberi sui rilievi alpini che possono crescere solo di pochi centimetri per qualche settimana all'anno. Per gli scrittori e gli artisti che sono cresciuti in mezzo a caterve di artefatti e frammenti culturali, tutto questo fa parte della loro vita, ma quasi tutto è off-limit sul piano dell'espressione artistica perché è di «proprietà» di qualcuno.

The astounding creativity of the unconscious mind is apparent from its ability to produce our incredible and exhilarating dreams. It's amazing how many people take their dreams for granted and don't stop to consider how extraordinary dreaming is, and how much work goes into producing a dream. Think of the time, effort, personnel and cost that goes into producing a Hollywood blockbuster. A dream can do something even better on the hoof, night after night.

Novelists get spooked by a blank page, yet the unconscious mind can create amazing, creative dreams from scratch every night. It never has writer's block. It's never stuck when it comes to thrilling storytelling.

his attempts at baking being closer to brickmaking than bread.

The light of love shines " in the darkness" (John 1:5), in suffering, in confusion, in all that we will never understand. Love makes darkness itself shine. This opens altogether new possibilities for dealing creatively with the shadow side of reality. Words can only serve as pointers; we must put this to the test in our own dark hours. Those who have done so, those who have suffered lovingly, have discovered the transformative power of love.

Though what I have in mind', he said, 'is something far different. I thought if we listened to the music you could write down whatever you felt.' He turned on the gramophone.

Two struggling musicians, always broke, forever hopeful.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art

Your response is your own. It is created by no one else but you.

In the novel All Flesh Is Grass, one of Cliff's characters, Nancy, who was a writer herself, would say of that profession: "It's a thing you don't talk about—not until you're well along with it. There are so many things that can go wrong with writing. I don't want to be one of those pseudo-literary people who are always writing something they never finish, or talking about writing something that they never start.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

Spending so much time alone had turned Chloe's imagination into a deep dark forest. It was a magical place to escape to, and so much more thrilling than real life.

My name is Mr Bread." He began writing his name neatly on the board. "But you can call me Peter." Suddenly there was quiet, as thirty little brains whirred. "Pita Bread!" proclaimed a ginger-haired boy from the back.

David Walliams

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David Walliams

David Walliams

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

David Walliams

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Flip had written many volumes of poetry: