Quotes About Creativity

The key to a fertile imagination is filling your mind with bullshit.

The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

The insomnia was on again, and I was in the mood to destroy something beautiful

perchè la realtà non arriva mai dove può spingersi l'immaginazione. Nessuna donna è davvero bella come lo è nella tua testa. Niente è eccitante quanto la tua fantasia.

Todos los descubrimientos verdaderos surgen del caos, son resultado de dirigirse hacia lo que parece incorrecto y ridículo y tonto.

We all have the same Rislampa/Har paper lamps made from wire and environmentally friendly unbleached paper. Mine are confetti.

Jedna dívka, se kterou se Misty znala na výtvarné Å¡kole, naplnila kuchy?ský mixér mokrým betonem a nechala ho puÅ¡tÄ›ný, dokud se motor v oblaku Å¡tiplavého dýmu nezavaÃ…â"¢il. To bylo její vyjádÃ…â"¢ení k životu ženy v domácnosti.

She says, We're all some kind of genius. Just, she says, some of us in other ways.

Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.

Books were usually a way for her to power her own brain down and borrow someone else's for a while.

Rejection refines us. Those who fall prey to its enervating soul-sucking tentacles are doomed. Those who persist past it are survivors. Best ask yourself the question: what kind of writer are you? The kind who survives? Or the kind who gets asphyxiated by the tentacles of woe?

On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.

The Muse is not real. Relying on the Muse is like leaning on a crutch made of playing cards.

It is our job to ruin the perfection of the empty page. It is our job to disrupt the status quo: because that's what storytelling us. Taking a straight line and bending it, breaking it, shaping it into something far stranger and far greater.

Writers are made -- forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities -- over the course of many, many moons.

Your first draft can and should look like a fucking warzone. That's okay. Don't sweat it, because you survived. Put differently, that first draft of yours has permission to suck. Go forth and care not.

Jas once heard the story that the Jedi constructed their own lightsabers and she figured, well, why can't she do the same with her rifle? So she did. Because she can do whatever she wants.

Life is equal parts strange and beautiful and horrible, and we're tossed into it without a map or an instruction guide. Poems and stories have a way of helping us make sense of things.

Creative agitation can serve you well. Embrace it. Look into that dark hole for answers, not fear.

Do that and the carbs will only drag you down, make you mentally foggy. Stick with protein while writing. By the way, bacon is protein. Just saying.

Writers are goofy-headed moon-units.

Writers and actors have some creative ground in common, and so when you're writing a scene and hoping to convey a mood it's not the worst idea to try to put that mood into your headspace -- feel it, if only a little. I'm not saying you have to kill a kitten or punch your mother to feel something -- I just mean, stir up the memory of certain emotions if not the emotion itself. Same way an actor might think about a sad moment to conjure tears on-camera. 23.

Look for the little story. Look for the story about people. Then you wrap it in a generous swaddling of space ninjas and swamp monsters and explodey-boom-boom-pyoo-pyoo-zap.

Learn from your existence and borrow things from your day to day. Have adventures. Take risks. Put yourself into your fiction. Because life offers a kind of writing advice you just can't read about -- it's something only you can experience.