Quotes About Creativity

We did photograph albums, best dresses, favourite novels, and once someone's own novel. It was about a week in a telephone box with a pair of pyjamas called Adolf Hitler. The heroine was a piece of string with a knot in it.

It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own.

If you can't survive in this world, you had better make a world of your own.

The saggy armchair of clichés.

Cuando eres un niño solitario siempre encuentras un amigo imaginario.

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.

It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing; the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go. You look where you don't want to look.

Creativity is on the side of health – it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness. The

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.

Perhaps art is an eye problem…

I have music. Music is the world inside me. I am a performer, but whether or not I perform, the music is there.

It is the poet who goes further than any human scientist. The poet who with her dredging net must haul up difficult things and return them to the present.

My mother is very like William Blake, she has visions and dreams and she cannot always distinguish a flea's head from a king. Luckily she can't paint.

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.

Not so. Fold up the maps and put away the globe. If someone else had charted it, let them. Start another drawing with whales at the bottom and cormorants at the top, and in between identify, if you can, the places you have not found yet on those other maps, the connections obvious only to you. Round and flat, only a very little has been discovered.

Fold up the maps and put away the globe. If someone else had charted it, let them. Start another drawing with whales at the bottom and cormorants at the top, and in between identify, if you can, the places you have not found yet on those other maps, the connections obvious only to you. Round and flat, only a very little has been discovered.

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I had better come clean now and say that I do not believe that art (all art) and beauty are ever separate, nor do I believe that either art or beauty are optional in a sane society.

I tried to build an igloo out of the orange peel but it kept falling down and even when it stood up I didn't have an eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about 'How Eskimo Got Eaten', which made me even more miserable. It's always the same with diversions; you get involved.

I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.

The photographer frames the shot, writers frame their world.

And I thought about women. All these books, and how long had it taken for women to write their share, and why were their still so few women poets and novelists, and even fewer who were considered to be important?

She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work.

I have ridden out all the storms," said Shakespeare, "even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins…