Quotes About Creativity

Writing fiction (that means I make up stuff) is like having a free GO PAST GO card. You can write pretty much whatever you want, burn down a building, maim or kill a character, you can create love, hate, payback. You can create fictional places that over time actually become real to you the writer, and also to the reader. For example, Pinewood, where the vigilantes hang out, is a fictional farm in McLean, Virginia.

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To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don't know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).

I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.

O poeta é um fingidor. Finge tão completamente Que chega a fingir que é dor A dor que deveras sente.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit…

To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.

To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.

Escrever é esquecer. A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida

I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So that I won't need a corridor Of thought leading to words.

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation. If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while.

Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sózinho.

La música, la luz de la luna y los sueños son mis armas mágicas.

Sometimes I muse about how wonderful it would be if I could string all my dreams together into one continuous life, a life consisting of entire days full of imaginary companions and created people.

The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

12. Se escrevo o que sinto é porque assim diminuo a febre de sentir. O que confesso não tem importância, pois nada tem importância Por: Bernado Soares In: Livro do Desassossego

We know that the book we will never write will be bad. Even worse will be the one we put off writing. At least the book that has been written exists.

At other times I wake up from the half sleep I'd fallen into, and hazy images with poetical and unpredictable colours play out their silent show to my inattention.

A Arte é, com efeito, o aperfeiçoamento subjectivo da vida.

La literatura, como cualquier forma de arte, es la confesión de que la vida no basta.

My self-critical mind allows me to see only the defects and faults in my own work, and so I only have the courage to write snippets and snatches, brief notes on the theme of nonexistence, and yet even the little I write is imperfect.

Os poetas místicos são filósofos doentes,  E os filósofos são homens doidos.