Quotes About Creativity

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out.

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.

Kalau kita, para warga negara, tidak memberikan dukungan kepada seniman-seniman kita, berarti kita telah mengorbankan imajinasi kita di altas realitas yang kejam, dan pada akhirnya kita jadi tidak percaya pada apapun, dan mimpi-mimpi kita tidak lagi berarti.

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination o the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Art is rooted in joy.

But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

I quite deliberately dressed wild animals in tame costumes of my imagination.

I don't know then. I wrote my book on the Holocaust without worrying about where the fucking bar code would go.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.

If we citizens do not support our artists then we sacrifice our immagination on the altar of cruel reality & we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams. (ppXII)

Stories full of metaphors are by writers who play the language like a mandolin for our entertainment, novelists

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality?

How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Kenworthy

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.