Quotes About Creativity

I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax.

Bruno Mars is great.

Tolkien imagined The Lord of the Rings as a book very much like The Hobbit: aimed at a young audience, built around humor and pranks, and modeled on the structure of a folktale or fairy story. He even called it "the Hobbit sequel" or "the new Hobbit." He

As Tolkien points out, the name is "a pleasantly ingenious pun," referring to those who "dabble in ink." It also suggests people "with vague or half-formed intimations and ideas.

Do not all the achievements of a poet's predecessors and contemporaries rightfully belong to him? Why should he shrink from picking flowers where he finds them? Only by making the riches of the others our own do we bring anything great into being.

I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

And suddenly, as if her head had cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for. I mustn't give in.

Polly finished her huge narrative during the summer term. The day after she had finished it, she went round with the oddest mixture of feelings, pride at having got it done, sick of the sight of it and glad it was over, and completely lost without it.

There are no rules. Only principles and natural laws.

If you were able to hear lime juice, it would sound like violins.

And, suddenly, as if her head cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for.

Apply your fiendish mind to the matter, said Howl. Or even think, if you know how.

I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellings

Derk was sick of falling backward into his trench, but he never had time to invent a different way of being killed.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories.

We can't all be Mad Hatters," said Howl.

Pero quería hacer algo, no estaba segura de qué, algo que fuera un poco mas interesante que adornar sombreros.

Charles liked poetry because the lines were so short. You could think your own thoughts in the spaces around the print.

seen without clothes on. Their skins were greenish

If you annoy me, watch out! I shall put you in a book as a baddie and then make people laugh at you.

Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Higher IQs can perform certain kinds of tasks better--logic, feats of memory, and so on. But if the IQ is much higher or lower than that, the window of creativity closes. Nonetheless, for some reason we believe more is better, so people yearn for tip-top IQs, and that calls for bigger memories. A fast, retentive memory is handy, but no skeleton key for survival.