Quotes About Creativity

your job is to be honest and to try not to be too boring. However, if you must choose between being eclectic and various or being repetitious and boring, be repetitious and boring. Most good poets are, if read very long at one sitting.

It's a useful exercise to forbid yourself the use of keynote words such as 'fury' or 'jealous' when dramatizing an emotional condition.

Sometimes the discovery of something we can classify as our voice coincides with a weariness with that voice, and the struggle begins to create a new voice.

Poetry as an art form invites us to go beyond our preconceptions, to invent, to be truly imaginative. One reason for this is because that action, of going beyond ourselves, is an effect of the form itself: the poem is a structure which helps us to think differently, and one of the ways it does this is through its focus on imagery, encouraging us to think through our images in rational or irrational patterns.

In revision, as a rough rule, if the beginning can be cut, cut it. And if any passage sticks out in some way, leaves the main trajectory, could possibly come out — take it out and see what the story looks like that way. Often a cut that seemed sure to leave a terrible hole joins up without a seam. It's as if the story, the work itself, has a shape it's trying to achieve, and will take that shape if you'll only clear away the verbiage.

Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.

When we talk about homeschooling today, we're amazed at how many people agree that they didn't learn much in school, that school teaches kids to pass the test and move on rather than explore and investigate and inquire...

available to them, generally display a refreshing enthusiasm and eagerness about learning. Learning isn't a chore, they've discovered, it's a by-product of engaging in activity with a fresh, eager, hungry mind. If we can bend our own thinking processes far enough to give play its rightful due, we could call creativity the play of the mind.

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

Your library is your portrait.

Trying to compose even a single sentence can have the same effect, as we try to juggle grammatical and syntactical alternatives plus all the possibilities of tone, nuance, and rhythm even a simple sentence offers. Composing, then, is a cognitive activity that constantly threatens to overload short-term memory.

Una comunicación escrita es como un territorio extenso y desconocido que te contiene a ti, a tu lector/a, tus ideas, tu propósito y todo lo que puedas hacer. Lo primero que debes hacer como escritor/a es explorar este territorio. Tienes que conocer las leyes de la tierra antes de hollarla.

Heart pounding, she started to prepare the meal that hit her so hard. Her famous cherry tomatoes stuffed with chile, cheese, and bacon, along with pulled pork, endive slaw, and potato pancakes with homemade catsup.

The German chocolate cake was easy. So was the vanilla buttercream. But the strawberry shortcake gave me fits. Turns out, the final fix came when I baked a fresh strawberry in the middle of a vanilla sour-cream batter instead of strawberry batter with chunks of strawberries.

She said, 'Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.' That was the beginning of my passion for design, textiles and William Morris, though I didn't know then that she was quoting him. She went to

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. Clive Barker

A friend once suggested that I paint my own blue boat and name her Thirteen Whistling Pigs. I might not be as superstitious as some, but I'm not crazy.

Writing as proven to be hard work, often painful. I can honestly say I would rather be fishing.

Sometimes I lay my body down on a marble slab . . . and become poetry.

I knew my box of paints, stored away on the bedroom shelf of my small house across the ocean, could never create such colors.

My goal for writing is to touch your heart and tickle your funny bone, while leaving you with a promise of hope in your life and, therefore, in this world.

Even mortal horses can lead people to secret springs of lost knowledge, and they're fully capable of carrying the living dead, those lobotomized by the current paradigm, to a hidden realm of emotional and creative vitality, a kingdom that is indeed within us all.

Je me crois un écrivain dans sa tour d'ivoire, je ne suis qu'un minus habens perché sur son nuage.

The jerboa] survives depravity not by adopting habits of better-known species but by adapting creatively to the unique rigors of its environment. Although Moore's animals do have innately poetic qualities, such as the jerboa's rhythmic leaps, the poems emphasize what she would later identify as her most valuable assets as an artist: persistence and fortitude. Her animal poems are both instructions in the art of survival and acts of survival themselves.