Quotes About Creativity

When your grandchildren ask you what you did during the war, you can say, I made this movie.

a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you—that is a hazard

I wonder if what I have should even be called talent. After all, a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you—that is a hazard, I must confess.

I think of the novelist Haruki Murakami, who compares writing a novel to digging a hole through deep rock to reach a source of water. To access mystery and intuition requires hard work and is a gamble, for there is no guarantee that we will find that source of water.

And authenticity's important. Not that authenticity beats imagination. The story still comes first. The universality of the story has to be there. But it doesn't hurt to get the details right.

Writing was entering into fog, feeling my way for a route from this world to the unearthly world of words, a route easier to find on some days than others.

talent is something you use, not something that uses you.

consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Nothing Emerson wrote was ever truer of America, but

What is valuable about my worlds of the arts and humanities is that they create spaces for this type of slow thinking. And by this I mean that we value the arts and humanities not simply for the material possibilities and rewards they may bring, like a Pulitzer Prize. Rather, we should value the arts and humanities for their privileging of the mystery and intuition that makes moments of revelation and innovation possible.

I think of the novelist Haruki Murakami, who compares writing a novel to digging a hole through deep rock to reach a source of water.

Pidin itseäni runoilijana. Sinä pidit itseäsi toimittajana. Sinusta minä olin kohtalainen runoilija. Minusta sinä olit kohtalainen toimittaja.

We are living in a culture in which metaphor is discarded for these so-called facts. We train minds to detect these facts much as one breaks in a baseball glove. Meanwhile, the imagination is neglected and is left unguarded and untrained. W

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Art seems to be the only place we can liberate our many selves.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

You must never take a direct route to your destination.

Sometimes i write the best about the things that I care about least

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

In a clear brook With joyful haste The whimsical trout Shot past me like an arrow I play the line of the song, I play the leaps and plunges of the right hand of the piano, I am the trout, the angler, the brook, the observer.

Don't be an example in someone else's theory, write yours using your own examples.

I am a writer. Books are my home and words are my friends.

Make your own path. The well trodden path is not always the right path.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.