Quotes About Creativity

write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda

Dele poca importancia al vestir y no le dé ninguna importancia a la moda, cómprese vestidos cómodos y que duren, y con lo ahorrado en vestir podrá comprar cuadros

finding you were able to make something up; to create truly enough so that it made you happy to read it; and to do this every day you worked was something that gave a greater pleasure than any I had ever known.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

I have all the poems stashed away' ... 'You were very thoughtful about them, Hem. It is not that things should be published. But I believe now that it is important that they exist. We've both existed quite a lot haven't we Hem?

Ahora no es el momento de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa en lo que puedes hacer con lo que hay.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.

No. Hieronymus Bosch. Very old-timer. Very good. Pieter Brueghel worked on that too.

As he had originally planned to do, Hemingway took the external details of the story and presented them from the point of view of the fisherman. He thus made it possible for the reader to participate imaginatively in the story. That effect was always Hemingway's primary aim as a writer.

There was a great deal of material that Hemingway wrote for A Moveable Feast that he decided to leave out, acting "by the old rule that how good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Make me a Tom Collins with coconut water and bitters to take. Put it in one of the cork holders.

no good writer can do his job working in a fascist state, which is built on lies.

all good things come from what is inside you.

A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts, and these now wish to cease their work because it is too lonely, too hard to do, and is not fashionable.

Write drunk; edit sober.

When I had written a novel before, the one that had been lost in the bag stolen at the Gare de Lyon, I still had the lyric facility of boyhood that was as perishable and as deceptive as youth was. I knew that it was probably a good thing that it was lost, but I knew too that I must write a novel.

Make it all up. But make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. Ernest Hemingway

Ahora no es el momento de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa lo que puedes hacer con lo que hay.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

am a journalist. But like all journalists I wish to write literature

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

You ought to write, he told himself. Maybe you will again some time.

A writer] should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, they will succeed.