Quotes About Creativity

She had typed A Murder of Quality under protest, but this time she declined, so David had to rely on the Embassy secretaries instead. In a letter to Ann written in June, he complained that 'the new book drags along but the girls are all away and there's no one to type it'.35

Bad prose is the bugbear of genre fiction.

graphic design has a cultural and aesthetic value beyond the mere trumpeting of commercial messages.

It [money] doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water--whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

There is no greater purpose for art than to move you, to elevate your mood, to make you think, to remind you of places you have been or places you want to build. It does everything—nourishes the soul and lifts the spirits of the people.

Romy had never done a budget, Marisol had never designed costumes and sets, and Suzanne had never acted, but when I asked them to help, they didn't hesitate

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the

But more important than all these lovely features of gracious living was the camaraderie of the young residents, who aspired to better lives on the wings of their talent and creativity.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.

Comparisons have been made with Stirner, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Camus, to name only a few.3 He won tributes from Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn, who acknowledged his formative influence on their work in both content and style.

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

One could not spend one's life in the imaginings of another life.

I am going to host Thanksgiving myself and instead of a turkey I'm serving a big human butt.

There are students that are scattered, who need to see something through to the finish, but I would say there are possibly more who do not entertain the leaps of the mind that need to be nurtured, and this desire to finish becomes more about being a good student than about finishing something interesting. Where does work ethic fit in with writing? I think that's pretty complicated from one writer to the next. You need some kind of work ethic, but what does it look like for you?

It feels like Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye in a day, and that incredible feeling of ease inspires writing. Inspires the pursuit of voice. Not his voice. My voice. Your voice.

In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet.

curiosity is the key to creativity

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.