Quotes About Creativity

L]iterature is always badly served when an author's artistic insight yields place to stereotype and malice. -Home and Exile

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Wine grapes are as sensitive to assaults as authors.

We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors.

That's right: No one cares! People have troubles of their own! It's okay. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it; it means you should do it, somehow, for its own sake, without illusions. Just write, just live, and don't care too much yourself. No one cares. It's just banter.

Art is a way of expanding our resonances, civilization our way of resonating to those expansions

J.-P. Quélin: 'The voluptuous cruelty of filling pages is what kills us.

No one single person needs to be a genius or a visionary or even a great artist for the result to be permanent and to transcend generations. In the same way, the clubs we make are collectively smarter than the people we are. Reason, like musicals, emerges from the meeting of many minds.

one-eyed people who used their feet to cover their heads. A

The millions of words that would flow from his pen over the remainder of his life came in a handwriting that raced across the page in bold, forward-slanting lines, flattened by speed, as if they had no time to spare in reaching their destination.

Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.

Isn't that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?

every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.

Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.

Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.

When ambition is exponentially greater than resource, said Prahalad, that's when real innovation happens.

For engineers, designers and other creative problem-solvers, a formal definition of the constraints within which they must work is essential to channel energies and expand creativity.

say, 'There never was such a person as Homer,'" the English essayist Thomas De Quincey joked in 1841.

The Odyssey is constantly free and constantly inventive.

When we wants to do something but cannot, that is when we think. When our consciousness awakes up and stretches its arms. That is when we imagine, and plan, and dream about the undone thing.

So I sang the first Italian song that came into my head, which turned out to be "Volare." I'm sure I need not mention at this point that I am a rock star, and it sounded fantastic. J.Lo

The Fay have always preferred a good story over a well-thought plan.

We all reinvent our pasts, but writers are in a class of their own