Quotes About Creativity

We will leap tall couplets in a single bound

Writin' is fightin'.

Le poète dilate les voyelles.

No text without inspiration

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

There are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I feel I must try to counterbalance them with whatever beauty I can produce. Setting a pretty table in a world of pain might seem callous, given that people are starving and living in dreadful disease and poverty. But in trying to create islands of beauty and peace, I feel I am honoring the dreams of the world.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature…. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.

In the even more congested times that await us, literature must aim at the maximum concentration of poetry and of thought.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

How well I would write if I were not here!

Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.

Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can't make anything.

I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible

although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.

The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but life begins again at the end of the page, and one realises that one has knew nothing whatsoever.

Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic.

La fantasia è un posto dove ci piove dentro.