Quotes About Creativity

That complete statement which is literature.

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.

Once again, as it has with irregular regularity throughout my waking life, that sickening sense of language buried deep within comes coursing through arms, legs, chest, throat. If only I could make it reach the brain, the conversation with myself might perhaps begin.

This book is for Randall Jarrell, the man who believed we are devoted to the act of making literature because it leads to the act of reading.

The life we lead as writers is awful—it's boring, tedious, lonely," -Vivian Gornick

Letter writing is not the noble enterprise. Remaining fully expressive is the noble enterprise.

Pretend" often confuses the adult, but it is the child's real and serious world, the stage upon which any identity is possible and secret thoughts can be safely revealed.

since fantasy play is the glue that binds together all other pursuits, including the early teaching of reading and writing skills, I am compelled to put it on display as clearly as I can.

If fantasy play provides the nourishing habitat for the growth of cognitive, narrative, and social connectivity in young children, then it is surely the staging area for our common enterprise: an early school experience that best represents the natural development of young children.

web being constructed by the children in their constant exchange of ideas the moment I stopped talking and they resumed playing.

The children were actors on a moving stage, carrying out philosophical debates while borrowing fragments of floating dialogue. Themes from fairy tales and television cartoons combined with social commentary and private fantasy to form a tangible script that was not random and erratic.

Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.