Quotes About Creativity

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

All art requires courage.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I'm joining the circus. Although I'm happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.

Jack was the only person she knew with an imagination, at least a real one. The only tea parties he'd have were ones in Wonderland, or the Arctic, or in the darkest reaches of space. He was the only person who saw things for what they could be instead of just what they were. He saw what lived beyond the edges of the things your eyes took in. And though they eventually grew out of Wonderland Arctic space-people tea parties, that essential thing remained the same. Hazel fit with Jack.

Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.

she wore weird baggy clothes and seemed like the sort of person who might tesser in some dark and stormy night.

You are where you are, you don't have to judge it, although some of the old poems might be more interesting than some I might write tomorrow.

Tu avais raison, lui dit-elle, l'Elgolie n'existe pas. Pas comme je le croyais, en tout cas. Mais je n'ai renoncé à rien. J'ai décidé de faire de la Galnicie une sorte d'Elgolie à ma façon. Qu'en penses-tu ? — Te connaissant, répondit Filomène avec un large sourire, je pense... que tu es parfaitement capable d'y arriver, Princetta !

Because of where we've been, we might not ever totally grow up. Is that so bad? Other adults spend fortunes trying to revive their inner children, trying to be wide-eyed, curious, creative, playful, even vulnerable again. We are already that way. We have always been that way, and we can stay that way. Bring hard-won wisdom, courage, and awareness into it, but candor, laughter, tender sympathy for crying kings and birds with broken wings: these we can keep.

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

The most horrifying thing about art is its honesty

Writers' closest companions are inside their heads.

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

Annie Barrows lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Töchtern in Kalifornien. Die eine Tochter ist wie Ivy, die andere wie Bean. Sie brauen eine Menge Zaubertränke.