Quotes About Creativity

A mí me gustaría contribuir a la vida con algo de belleza (...) No quiero hacer solo que la gente sepa más, aunque sé que es la ambición más noble, sino que me encantaría hacerles pasar un rato más agradable gracias a mí; tener una pequeña alegría o un pensamiento feliz que nunca habría existido si yo no hubiera nacido.

She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.

Whenever he got stuck for an idea, he would bang the Bible and shout very bitterly, 'Curse ye Meroz.' Poor Meroz got thoroughly cursed that day, whoever he was, Mrs. Dr. dear, said Susan.

I wish my imagination was as good as yours. It would be if you'd only cultivate it

Es la primera cosa que he visto que no podría ser mejorada por la imaginación.

L.M. Montgomery

Pero si uno tiene grandes ideas debe usar grandes palabras para expresarlas, ¿no es verdad?

Es la primera vez que veo una cosa que no puedo mejorar con la imaginación. Y me ha hecho sentir algo especial aquí. —dijo, poniendo la mano sobre el pecho—. Como dolor y placer al mismo tiempo.

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

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

But here and now I record this vow, most solemnly, in my diary, My pen shall heal, not hurt.

Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.

I was just trying to write out some of my thoughts, as Professor Hamilton advised me, but I couldn't get them to please me. They seem so still and foolish directly they're written down on white paper and black ink. Fancies are like shadows... you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. But perhaps I'll learn the secret someday if I keep trying.

It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

Are we going to design and build circumstances that enlarge possibilities for growth in human freedom, sociability, intelligence, creativity, and self-government? Or are we headed in an altogether different direction?

even when we stop typing and leave the house, we remain writers.

Writing is a two-party democracy. To the left are those who write stories from their heart, or according to the other side of the aisle, from the seat of their pants. On the right are those who write stories from a meticulously constructed outline.

See this page of paper? It's blank," Scull said. "That, sir, is the most frightening battlefield in the world: the blank page. I mean to fill this paper with decent sentences, sir—this page and hundreds like it. Let me tell you, Colonel, it's harder than fighting Lee. Why, it's harder than fighting Napoleon. It requires unremitting attention

One reason I've hung on to book selling is that it's progressive—the opposite of writing, pretty much. Eventually all novelists, if they persist too long, get worse. No reason to name names, since no one is spared. Writing great fiction involves some combination of energy and imagination that cannot be energized or realized forever. Strong talents can simply exhaust their gift, and they do.

Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were.

I was just doodling at the typewriter

He was embarked, at the time, on a book sighing—I insist, sighing, not signing, though he's pretty adept at that too.

This place is a playground for a questing mind.

Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.) There