Quotes About Creativity

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

ante la ignorancia se puede inventar—.

He had a penchant for idioms, sayings, proverbs and the like; some of which he invented or used in a way that was incomprehensible to me

Romper con el pasado es de ignorantes —decía—. No se puede anteponer la originalidad a la belleza.

Entusiasmo significa «rapto divino». De en-theos, estar con Theos, con lo sagrado. Conectar con el impulso creador. Dejarse arrastrar por la fuerza de lo que se desea contar.

Escribir es renunciar a lo que uno es y ponerse al servicio de vidas ajenas que te susurran al oído.

La motivación para escribir un buen libro la da el tener algo importante que contar.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Don't ask me for my resume -it's a piece of paper that won't help you or your business. Instead, ask me for unique ideas - and with that, I will give you plenty." ~ Jaxi West

Creativity comes from knowledge. You must have knowledge of your own product or service, your competition, your target audience, your marketing area, the economy, current events, and the trends of the time. With this knowledge, you'll have what it takes to develop a creative marketing program, and you'll produce creative marketing materials.

Combined with your meme, your theme—an unintentional rhyme—gives you double-barreled memorability.

All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters.

You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job and the life there wasn't much time left over for emotion recollected in tranquillity.

In dreams begin possibilities.

Writers are always pirates, marauding, taking whatever pleases them from others, shaping these stolen goods to our purposes.

Ideas arise independently from the same mysterious source.

Brilliance is born of desperation.

Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with others, with those who don't originate from the planet of words and language. Other things do happen, but we don't know what they are until we write about them, or think about them in words, or remember them in phrases. - From "Why She Writes

A song moves a story fast or slow like the river moves the water.