Quotes About Creativity

For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist.

I hardly suppose Wagner lost sleep worrying whether he'd hurt someone's feelings. But then he was a genius.

I had realized that while books are extraordinary, writers themselves are no more or less special than anyone else.

But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence, this very word, I am aware of a ghost reader who leans over my shoulder watching my pen, who twists my words and perverts my meaning, and makes me uncomfortable in the privacy of my own thoughts. It is very aggravating to be presented to oneself in a light so different from the familiar one, even when it is clearly a false light. I will not write any more.

Las historias necesitan palabras. Sin ellas palidecen, enferman y mueren. Y luego te persiguen.

How horribly dull. I could never have been a biographer. Don't you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?" "Not in the stories you have told the world so far.

Even the furniture made the most of the lack of supervision to move about.

I'm a storyteller." "I am a biographer.

El silencio no es el entorno natural para las historias -me dijo en una ocasión la señorita Winter-. Las historias necesitan palabras. Sin ellas palidecen, enferman y mueren. Y luego te persiguen.

To think a book could have so much paper in it!

The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours.

Behind it a pile of old rags with a hat on top organized itself into a man, albeit a scruffy one, and struggled to its feet.

To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.

Dianne Jacob

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I've never believed in God. But I believe in Picasso.

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist.

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts. It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

Dinty W. Moore

My job is not to just set down events that happened to me. My job is to create an experience for a reader." —Mary Karr

The writer of nonfiction might be starting with events that really happened, but recreating them is an imaginative feat. Ordering them is an imaginative feat. Making sense of them is an imaginative feat." —Robin Hemley

Mister Sensei Essay Writer Guy opens his eyes momentarily, smiles, and says, "When you are not writing, be thoroughly not writing; when you are writing, be writing through and through.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.