Quotes About Creativity

Que la mitad de una novela la pone el que la escribe, y la otra mitad el que la lee.

Since nothing annoys a writer who doesn't write as much as being asked what he's writing

O sea que se puede ser un buen escritor siendo un grandísimo hijo de puta. Qué...

porque los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede...un escritor no escribe nunca acerca de lo que conoce, sino precisamente de lo que ignora.

Para escribir novelas no hace falta imaginación—dijo Bolaño—. Sólo memoria. Las novelas se escriben combinando recuerdos.

He llegado a la conclusión de que la realidad mata y la ficción salva.

Yo enamoré a mi mujer haciéndole creer que era escritor y al final tuve que hacerme escritor para que se quedase conmigo.

los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede;

What happened is the least of it. It's a novel, and once you've finished a novel, what happened in it is of little importance and soon forgotten. What matters are the possibilities and ideas that the novel's imaginary plot communicates to us and infuses us with, a plot that we recall far more vividly than real events and to which we pay far more attention.

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

man who goes to a hardware store to buy a power drill doesn't really need a drill—he needs holes. He

the most defining trait of great entrepreneurs in the twenty-first century will be the ability to creatively collaborate with other people

To address right-brained people, you use pictures, appeals to the imagination, color, rhythm, and space.

Brain righties love open space.

Guerrilla marketers do not rely on the brute force of an outsized marketing budget. Instead, they rely on the brute force of a vivid imagination.

the essence of guerrilla marketing—the soul and the spirit of guerrilla marketing—is small business: companies with big dreams but tiny budgets.

Traditional marketers, at the end of the month, count money. Guerrillas count new relationships.

Jay Conrad Levinson

write a brief column on your field of expertise, then offer it to newsletters devoted to that topic.

Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.

It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge.

Oh, Danny has quite a reputation for headstrongery." "Eh? Headstrongery?" said Mr. Pippit. "What kind of a word is that?" "Kind of nice, isn't it?" Joe said, proudly. "I just invented it. I also invented a motto for him: 'Leap before you look.' My own motto is, 'Sleep before you look.

There is no Great American Novel," she said absently. "This nation is too big and too diverse to produce only one great book. We've got lots of them and there will be more written in the future. Art doesn't stand still.

Hey, pretty damn smart aren't you? You made it just ugly enough. inconspicuous. Nobody looks twice. I have to admit, that was a hard one for me. I think one of the designers had a breakdown. Cried for an hour