Quotes About Creativity

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it.

It's so hard to find a male to gratify one's artistic tastes.

I married the heroine of my stories.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writers aren't exactly people. They're a whole lot of people, trying to be one person.

I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald

it's so hard to find a male to gratify one's artistic taste

There's no 'Safety First' in Art.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

Junior writers $300; Minor poets—$500 a week; Broken novelists—$850-1000; One play dramatists—$1500; Sucks—$2000. Wits—$2500.

Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person.

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed—the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.

Anthony for the moment wanted fiercely to paint her, to set her down now, as she was, as with each relentless second she could never be again. 'What were you thinking?' she asked. 'Just that I'm not a realist,' he said, and then: 'No, only the romanticist preserves the things worth preserving.

La amorfa capacidad de impresionarse adquiere categoría bajo el nombre de temperamento creativo