Quotes About Creativity

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

There is no reason why a well thought-out story should resemble real life; life strives with all its might to resemble a well thought-out story.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving...

But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.

I just don't want to bother looking at recipes. To me, that's not cooking—being tied to a piece of paper." He

Cooking was a passion and sometimes a serious art form, to be shared with a select few.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

A great artist is never poor.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.