Quotes About Creativity

The only thing that keeps me going is my art, she wrote. I believe in my heart that art is God's great gift to humanity. It's the only thing in my life I haven't botched miserably.

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a celebration . One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

Humans are the most gloriously bizarre creatures.

We try to make art perfect because we never manage it in real life

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.

being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they've written, they write some more.

Don't anyone move. . . I think we've driven into a mimefield.

The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them for the same effect.

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Les presento al nuevo expósito, Tiger Prawns. Tiger te presento a las hermanas Karamázov. Deirdre y Deirdre. -¿Por qué se llaman igual? -Tenían un padre con muy poca imaginación.

when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life.

Got the rocket-propelled liquorice launcher handy?

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer—perhaps more.

We require only a grenade launcher, six pounds of industrial-strength licorice, two spells of Class VIII complexity, a shipping container, a side of bacon, an automobile, several homing snails, a ladder, and two people to act as bait.

It is written.