Quotes About Creativity

The more different a team is, the smarter it is.

Many feel that process and creativity are in conflict, believing that creativity needs spontaneity and unstructured approaches. No doubt, a lot of creativity is a by-product of informal, spontaneous thinking.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

Now more than ever, we need people with the qualities Walt had: optimism, imagination, creativity, leadership, integrity, courage, boldness, perseverance, commitment to excellence, reverence for the past, hope for tomorrow and faith in God. How

All people are essentially creative because we are all made in the image of a creative God. Creativity is our birthright; imagination is the essence of our being. Only when we are dreaming big dreams are we truly fulfilling our God-given purpose in life.

Creativity is not so much an ability as a state of awareness.

Mickey was not merely the right idea at the right time; he was the creative solution to a crisis in Walt's life.

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

Perhaps' could be spun endlessly into different tales; even telling herself all of them, she would still be none the wiser.

All writers are, somewhere or other, mad. Not les grands fous, like Rimbaud, but mad, yes, mad. Because we do not believe in the stability of reality. We know that it can fragment, like a sheet of glass or a car's windscreen. but we also know that reality can be invented, reordered, constructed, remade. Writing is, in itself, an act of violence perpetrated against reality.

You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

Ja pri?am pri?e. Mi svi izmišljamo pri?e. Pri?at ?u ti pri?e koje ?e te nasmijati. Volim da te gledam kako se smiješ. Nikad ne?u pobje?i iz ovog zatvora beskrajnih pri?a.

Jonah, being a writer, is a slow learner, stubborn, self-righteous, not given to trust [ Out of the Garden ].

It's strange that we still believe in inspiration when, compared to earlier ages, we seem to believe in so little. Inspiration may be the one bit of God we haven't managed to kill off.

Carol looked at her. How do you become a poet? By feeling things - too much, I suppose, Therese answered conscientiously.

I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine.

His stories were good because he imagined them intensely, so intensely that he came to believe them.

I create things out of boredom with reality and with the sameness of routine and objects around me.

I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out of it.

Odd, Tom thought, that some girls meant sadness and death. Some girls looked like sunlight, creativity, joy, but they really meant death, and not even because the girls were enticing their victims, in fact one might blame the boys for being deceived by—nothing at all, simply imagination.

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if...What if...' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.

If the writer thinks about his material long enough, until it becomes a part of his mind and wakes up thinking about it- then at least when he starts to work, it will flow out as if by itself.