Quotes About Creativity

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

INVENTOR, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

I wasn't satisfied with "Stuart Little" on TV, but I didn't expect to be... It is the fixed purpose of television and motion pictures to scrap the author, sink him without a trace, on the theory that he is incompetent, has never read his own stuff, is not responsible for anything he ever wrote, and wouldn't know what to do about it even if he were.

I never get tired of the blue sky..

William Ralston Balch, 1883

Pink activates endorphins and energizes my creativity. It is a colour of femininity and fierceness.

There is a great renaissance going on. The flood of brains and imagination from the country to the cities is being stemmed — and a gradually increasing trickle is running in the opposite direction.

Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody

Moonlight is sculpture: sunlight is painting.

The sun is not only a painter but a sculptor.

Most writers have a cherished beat-up typewriter and a favorite well-maintained pen.

Be a vintage typewriter in a world full of laptops.

Stories live in typewriters. Try a different typewriter — you may get a different story.

When someone told me that I live in a fantasyland, I nearly fell off my unicorn.

Verses of veggies poems of fruit dotted with seeds raw green rhymes in melodious bodies

But men are so serious. Why? Why violence? Why hatred? Why war? If people want to make war, they should make a colour war, and paint each others city up during the night in pinks and greens.

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have countered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.

Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.

Author: a dancer of typewriter keys.

Let your pen faithfully reflect the glint of light from your soul.

I suggested that he should write out the whole affair from beginning to end, knowing that ink might assist him to ease his mind. When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.

Any real writer — or reader — has had a papercut on the forehead at least once.

Your writing chamber isn't the office or the study — it's your heart.