Quotes About Creativity

With 'J', at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of my novels I suddenly did not want to occupy. I wasn't reneging on it; I just didn't want to do it.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away

Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.

A man lays his character on the line when he writes a novel. Anything in him which is lazy, or meretricious, or unthought-out, complacent, fearful, overambitious, or terrified by the ultimate logic of his exploration will be revealed in his book.

The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation

One's own literary work was the only answer to the war in Vietnam.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

Since the most creative element in our person, the superior factor in our entire entity, is the mind

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they're impossible.

And, as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

And, most important of all, added the Mathemagician, here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you. He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own.

many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect.

Oh, don't worry about that, said the Mathemagician as he scooped up the pieces. We use the broken ones for fractions.

and, most of all, of how much could be accomplished with just a little thought.

Ali to je samo velika olovka, usprotivio se Uholaž i u nju kucnuo štapom za šetnju. To je istina, suglasio se Matemagi?ar, ali kad se jednom nau?iš njome služiti, onda nema kraja onom što možeš u?initi.

I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them. -Tock

We're not interested in making sense; it's not our job.