Quotes About Creativity

talking about characters in books is exciting and soothing to me at the same time.

It all goes back to this idea of ownership again. Once I published that book and my words became a commodity, something broke between us.

I just find it extraordinary that you think you have something to say.

Looking at our faces you might have said we were all feverish and half mad, and perhaps you would have been right, but Helen's book made us feel we could rip the stars from the sky and write the world anew.

Jag skriver inte för att jag tror att jag har något att säga. Jag skriver för att om jag inte gör det känns allt bara värre [karaktärens ord]

All problems with writing and performing come from fear. Fear of exposure, fear of weakness, fear of lack of talent, fear of looking like a fool for trying, for even thinking you could write in the first place. It's all fear. If we didn't have fear, imagine the creativity in the world. Fear holds us back every step of the way. A lot

The thoughts came fast, and I caught them, stopping only once to sharpen my pencil with a penknife. I thought of Nell's euphoria and nearly laughed out loud. This little rush of words was the closest

Everyone becomes a genius when they die young.

Don't you understand? There has to be a balance. A man can't be without power—it doesn't work like that. What was I going to do, write little books behind hers like a fucking echo? I needed something big. And this is big. Books on this thing will write themselves.

Is the good scientist allowed artistic license?

Good heavens,' he says. 'Is that what it's like with your writers? The word "snug" and you're mad in love?

Kay Boyle said once that a good story is both an allegory and a slice of life. Most writers are good at one, not the other. But you are doing both so beautifully here.

mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only

No escribo porque tenga algo que contar. Escribo porque si no lo hago, todo empeora mucho más.

I don't write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don't, everything feels even worse

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

If there is a hero, it is choreography.

I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, "You should lay off the f-bombs." The other is, "You should add more f-bombs.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

creativity and imagination are as crucial to the life writing project as they are to fiction and poetry. We'll explore, and attempt, both autobiography and biography in Part 4, and in activities you'll be able to form your writing into poetry and/or prose.