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Quotes About Creativity

Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.
~ Terri Guillemets
Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.
~ Terri Guillemets
Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.
~ Terri Guillemets
Art is the struggle to understand.
~ Terri Guillemets
Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.
~ Terri Guillemets
I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom.
~ Terri Guillemets
Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do.
~ Terri Guillemets
The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry.
~ Terri Guillemets
They'll find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.
~ Terri Guillemets
Poetry is not always words.
~ Terri Guillemets
A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.
~ Terri Guillemets
A man and his art are like a fool and his king.
~ Terri Guillemets
Love letters and poems aren't the least bit difficult to write, if you write directly from your heart into the ink and don't channel through your brain first.
~ Terri Guillemets
Her asterisks are daft, postscripts redundant, and prose parenthetical.
~ Terri Guillemets
I quote my soul I quote my heart But sometimes I just quote the wine.
~ Terri Guillemets
A notepad by the bedside accounts for half the earnings of my livelihood. If it weren't for bedtime, half my novels would still be stuck at dock.
~ Terri Guillemets
The only cure for writer's block is insomnia.
~ Terri Guillemets
Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and devils, too.
~ Terri Guillemets
My life's entwined by curly quote marks Clever phrases and profound remarks....
~ Terri Guillemets
When you dance to your own rhythm, Life taps its toes to your beat.
~ Terri Guillemets
If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I might be writing in my dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
Journal: fitting your heart and soul into ruled lines.
~ Terri Guillemets
Grammar stops at love, and at art.
~ Terri Guillemets