Quotes About Creativity

admitted Walter. Then the girls came in and Nan put cayenne pepper in it—and that made it worse—Di made me hold a swallow of cold water in my mouth—and I couldn't stand it, so they called Susan. Susan said it served me right for sitting up in the cold garret yesterday writing poetry trash. But she started up the kitchen fire

There go more italics! But a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

What is imagination for if not to enable you to peep at life through other people's eyes?

The Haunted Wood was a harmless, pretty spruce grove in the field below the orchard. We considered that all our haunts were too commonplace, so we invented this for our own amusement.

For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled, according to mood, in her literary pursuits. Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea, now despairing because some contrary character would NOT behave properly.

Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley

When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so.

I couldn't remember one word when I woke up this morning. And I'm afraid I'll never be able to think out another one as good. Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?

when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress – because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worthwhile –

I'm going to imagine that I'm the wind that is blowing up there in those tree tops. When I get tired of the trees I'll imagine I'm gently waving down here in the ferns—and then I'll fly over to Mrs. Lynde's garden and set the flowers dancing—and then I'll go with one great swoop over the clover field—and then I'll blow over the Lake of Shining Waters and ripple it all up into little sparkling waves. Oh, there's so much scope for imagination in a wind!

It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor ever will pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

Pero si una tiene ideas grandes, necesita palabras largas para expresarlas, ¿no cree?

I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure.

And the coming of Anne—the vivid, imaginative, impetuous child with her heart of love, and her world of fancy, bringing with her color and warmth and radiance, until the wilderness of existence had blossomed like the rose.

Because when you're imagining you might as well imagine something worth while--

But she remembered in time that she had an imagination and could use it.

You ought to cultivate your imagination, you know.

you must learn to keep on this side of the borderline between the real and the unreal. Then the power to escape at will into a beautiful world of your own will help you amazingly through the hard places of life.

Los dos sabían que la imaginación era la mejor forma de acceder a un mundo de felicidad y alegría

One of the reviews says the book radiates happiness and optimism. When I think of the conditions of worry and gloom and care under which it was written I wonder at this. Thank God, I can keep the shadows of my life out of my work. I would not wish to darken any other life - I want instead to be a messenger of optimism and sunshine.

In a 'make-believe' assembly of choice spirits everybody says just the thing you want her to say and so gives you the chance to say just what you want to say.

Burada hayal kurabileceÄŸim daha geniÅŸ bir alan var.

Çünkü eÄŸer bir ÅŸey hayal edecekseniz, uÄŸraÅŸt???n?za deÄŸecek bir ÅŸeyler hayal etmelisiniz.