Quotes About Creativity

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One's fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice.

ISAAC BABEL was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist.

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

The wastepaper basket is the writer's best friend.

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

Be the one who sets the trend, not the one who follows it.

To dwell on the lack thereof is a mental trap the majority of visionaries are taught to do.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.