Quotes About Creativity

If you understood everything in the mind of an author then reading his books would be no fun at all.

No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.

Men den, som skall bli diktare, är ingenting alls annat än ett åtlöje för Gud och människor, förrän han redan blivit erkänd och berömd. Därför måste han under alla de långa läroåren hänga en falsk skylt över sin dörr och låtsas sysselsätta sig med något som människorna anser aktningsvärt.

Genius is initiative on fire.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

I like for things to happen, for stories to unfold. And if I can't find a good enough story, I make one.

Rules are different for poets.

A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.

Each of you will have a chance to play it, and whosoever plays most sweetly, you will have it. For art is more than virtue or vice.

Except that I have no marketable skills other than swinging around a sword and making up riddles, neither of which probably pay all that well.

There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

It is my belief that books are living things.

And now she was sixteen and felt like she had no imagination left.

You've delivered your message. I have no bit of doggerel to send back—my own fault for having a seneschal who cannot double as my Court Poet—but I will be sure to crumple up some paper and drop it into the water when I do.

Charlie Hall, at her best when doing her worst. Whenever she tried to create something, it broke apart in her hands. But blow something up? There, Charlie had an unerring instinct for greatness.

We make art. We do not feel the need to cut things apart to see what they're made of.

He liked the way the story unfolded as he wrote, liked the way the answers just came to him sometimes, out of the blue, like they were true things just waiting to be discovered by him.

You can't play pretend forever.

None of that seemed real, but the world would certainly be cooler with something so unreal in it.

sprites wearing acorn caps and wielding glaives the size of toothpicks battled above a sea of tiger lilies.

He remembered her with ink-stained fingers and a messy apartment full of paperbacks.

Polyhymnia's

You've delivered your message. I have no big of doggerel to send back- my own fault for having a seneschal who cannot double as my Court Poet- but I will be sure to crumple up some paper and drop it into the water when I do.