Quotes About Creativity

Don't for heaven's sake , be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

Writing is successful schizophrenia because I'm paid to hear voices in my head.

The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over.

In our world, Darija said, throwing aside the chapter she was marking up, there will be no semicolons.

I pick up a pen and start to unscrew the whole thing, pull out the skinny little tube of blue ink. It would be so cool to have one of these built inside you, like a squid; you could point your finger and leave your mark on anything you wanted.

Because that's what stories do. They help you escape, and they give you the chance to do things you never imagined you would or could. They let you feel heartbreak you've never had and experience adventures from the safety of your own room. They are dreams for those who are still awake. They

Art isn't what you see. It's what you remember.

I pulled word after word from my core, like silk for a spider's web, spinning a make-believe life. That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?" - Minka (The Storyteller)

A villain let your creativity out of its cage.

When we were little, Eric and Fitz and I invented a language. I've forgotten most of it, with the exception of a few words: valyango, which meant pirate; palapala, which meant rain; and ruskifer, which had no translation to English but described the dimpled bottom of a woven basket, all the reeds coming together to form one joint spot, and that we sometimes used to explain our friendship.

She had given me my first crayons and coloring book, and had held me when I messed up, assuring me that the lines were for people with no imagination

Everyone has a book inside them - but it doesn't do an good until you pry it out.

You can always edit something bad. You can't edit something blank.

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

As Roxana Robinson said, "A writer is like a tuning fork: we respond when we're struck by something….If we're lucky we'll transmit a strong pure note, one that isn't ours, but which passes through us.

It's because you don't just tell stories," Darija explained. "You paint with words.

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent.

I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.

People sometimes complain that Berliners just sit around all day in cafes, smoking and talking about art. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

I have my little corner in the literary universe and I'm okay with that

I'm so bored I could sing to my dick.