Quotes About Creativity

A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

Nobody goes to a zoo to dream about dragons.

This is a great country, in no small part because it is the best country ever devised in which to be a public crank. Never has a nation so dedicated itself to the proposition that not only should people hold nutty ideas, but they should cultivate them, treasure them, shine them up, and put them right up there on the mantelpiece. This is still the best country ever in which to peddle complete public lunacy. In fact, it's the only country to enshrine that right in its founding documents.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

We could just as reasonably base our number system on eight (if we were cartoon characters) or four (if we were lobsters) or even two (if we were dolphins).

By the second week of November 1990, a new character had begun to spring forth in Kurt's journal writings, and this figure would soon make its way into almost every image, song, or story. He intentionally misspelled its name, and in doing so he was granting it a life of its own. Oddly, he gave it a female persona, but since it became his great love that Fall - and even made him throw up, just like Tobi - there was a fairness in this gender choice. He called it 'heroine'.

Yang aku tahu, aku sedang diliputi perasaan bahagia karena jatuh cinta dan aku tidak tahu musikku bakal berubah atau tidak.

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

expression is always concentrated in the dissonance.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

Writing programs (or programming) is a very creative and rewarding activity. You can write programs for many reasons ranging from making your living to solving a difficult data analysis problem to having fun to helping someone else solve a problem.

To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it whether you think you have it in you or not. Everyday. Alone. Without interruption. Contrary to what most people think, there is no glamour to writing. In fact, it's heartbreak most of the time. --Harper Lee

I must write…I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want to leave it. As a result I'll go for days without leaving the house or wherever I happen to be. I'll go out long enough to get papers and pick up some food and that's it. It's strange, but instead of hating writing I love it too much. --Harper Lee

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.

I write to annoy God, to make Death laugh. I write because I can't get it right.