Quotes About Creativity

I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner.

Whoever invented adding melted cheese over starchy goodness was surely the most brilliant human ever.

Because I hadn't known that I knew these things. Just having a notebook to write them in, and having someone to write them to, made them all rise to the surface.

I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook.

Langston took the latest red Moleskine notebook that Grandpa bought me and, together with Benny, mapped out a series of clues to find a companion just right for me.

But I couldn't concentrate on writing in the notebook. I wanted to live inside it, not write in it.

People come to New York to be different

There are certain things a girl just knows, like that a fourth minute on a punk song is a bad, bad idea

You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint—ask yourself who wrote them.

I think that reality has the distinct potential to completely suck, and the way to get around that is to step out of reality from time to time and find something a little more enjoyable with someone you completely, unadulteratedly

You can tell a lot about a person from the pages he or she chooses to journal on—I was strictly a college-ruled man myself, having no talent for illustration and a microscopic scrawl that made wide-ruled seem roomy.

remaining fair-minded as their beloved gallery-in-the-making was threatened by two crammed shelves of strange Semitic lettering.

no classes or exams, just acres of time in which to research and write—had swiftly revealed itself to be a glorified form of orphanhood.

He took it between his fingers, bore down with his bruised knuckle on its ridges, and like a miner picking his way toward an unknown destination began to write—slowly, steadily, filling the void with work. Was that what sadness did to a man?

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

Nihilism is not the last word. The last word is imagination.

Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never know you'd had

Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never known you'd had.

A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.

Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement. One could say things in writing without feeling self-conscious, without feeling shy and ashamed and foolish -- one could even write of the days of young Nelson, smiling a very little as one did so.

Cuando dos poetas se conocen y se dan la mano por vez primera, es como si dos corrientes trasangélicas tropezaran, fundiéndose.

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the grandmother of desperation.

Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.

We've only been sitting here forty minutes. I'm never at the morning table less than an hour and a half. I do some of my finest plotting over breakfast coffee and raisin brioche.