Quotes About Creativity

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

It is only when we forget the ideas behind building something wonderful that we can actually do the building that makes things wonderful.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island.' Walt Disney.

There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that tell truths.

If the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. —Madeleine L'Engle

I'm a creative man so my fears are greater than most.

think one of the worst enemies of creativity is self-doubt.

The success is more determined by imagination then circumstance

For poetry, like life, is its own justification

Writing always came naturally to me. It was like speaking, but easier. Actually, a lot easier.

Prologue When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.

When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.

No idea is too strange or ridiculous. An unworkable idea may inspire in someone else an idea that will work.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You're a human being, with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. If you speak with passion, many of us will listen. We need stories to live, all of us. We live by story. Yours enlarges the circle.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

the conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors]...to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.