Quotes About Creativity

As for my writing. I like it enough to keep going. I dislike it enough to keep going

I look over my old books, happiest when I find a line it seems I could not have written.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

The old adage "necessity is the mother of all invention" remains as true today as it did back in 3500 B.C.

He knew he probably sounded like an idiot to the scholars, but sometimes an idiot's perspective ended up getting more things done.

He wrote that it would take only a handful of super-enhanced individuals—those with a superior intelligence—to change the world through their creativity and discoveries, innovations that could be shared globally.

Read. Read everything in the genre in which you want to write, but don't limit yourself. Read broadly. The best teacher of writing is a good book.

Walter Isaacson's Leonardo da Vinci, which both humanizes the man and offers insight into his genius (do read

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

Nature fits all her children with something to do,He who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

I am creating him out of my own inadequacies, you must remember that

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

You keep writing because it's the only way to finish the book.

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

Don't give up. I don't think any other advice works. Writing is one of those things where you just have to do it. There will be far more people to discourage you than to encourage you. The time never comes to you, the inspiration doesn't come to you. You just sit down and do it." – James Lee Burke