Quotes About Creativity

Because art is like love. It goes feral if you keep it to yourself. Art is made to be given away, otherwise, it just rots.

This morning it was sunny and bright, and Maman was making Easter things. There were eggs, and hens, and rabbits, and ducks, all in different sizes and varieties of chocolate, and Maman was decorating them with gold leaf, and hundreds and thousands, and sugar roses and candied fruit. Later she'll wrap them in cellophane, like fabulous bunches of flowers, each tied with a long curly ribbon of a different color, and put them all on shelves at the back, as part of her annual Easter display.

She handed me one of the finished mendiants . A fat black cherry made for the nose; a candied lemon slice for the mouth. She had made all her chocolates into little faces. Features added in gold leaf; almonds, raisins, poppy seeds. All of the chocolates different, all of them marked with her signature: Love me. Feed me. Free me - And all of the chocolates were smiling.

Prazos largos são fáceis de subscrever; a imaginação os faz infinitos.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start.

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

We Pisces, we're a special breed.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

When you're an artist, it's because there's something inside you that you can't keep from spilling out. Maybe it comes in the form of sentences, or a grand jete, or stroke of a paintbrush. The end result can be a million different things. But the seed, it's always the same. It's the emotion there isn't a word for. The feeling that's too big for your body. To show someone your soul, you have to bleed. People who are comfortable, people who are content, they don't create art.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Ninety percent of my work is crap, " he continued. "Another nine percent is mediocre, and then there are those rare gems that are actually useable.

Throw away the rule book and create your own.

Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone

Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.

There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.

Be Patient to become a Patent