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Quotes About Creativity

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.
~ Donald Miller
You put something on the page," he said. "Your life is a blank page. You write on it.
~ Donald Miller
1.  Create a One-liner.
~ Donald Miller
But I didn't like thinking about myself anymore. You get tired of thinking about yourself all the time when you're a writer.
~ Donald Miller
Where there is an absence of story, or perhaps a bad story, a good storyteller walks in and changes reality. He doesn't critique the existing story, or lament about his boredom, like a critic. He just tells something different and invites other people into the new story he is telling.
~ Donald Miller
like chords of music in the sense that you can use them to create an infinite variety of narrative expression.
~ Donald Miller
this framework is the pinnacle of narrative communication.
~ Donald Miller
neuroscientists claim the average human being spends more than 30 percent of their time daydreaming . . . unless they're reading, listening to, or watching a story unfold.
~ Donald Miller
It's true of Jamie. But I want it to be true of you too. And for that matter, me. I don't believe we are accidents in the world, and I don't believe we were supposed to be actors either. I think we were supposed to be ourselves and we were meant as a miracle. Jamie, Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs. Much love, Don
~ Donald Miller
The text should be bold and the statement should be short. It should be easy to read and not buried under buttons and clutter.
~ Donald Miller
Stating the Problem Adds Value to Your Products
~ Donald Miller
Still Stuck? Swipe Ideas from These Examples One key to having an effective lead generator is to give it an irresistible title.
~ Donald Miller
The reality is, what writers write and the way they live can be as different as a lump of coal and a diamond. The written life is shined to a deceptive gloss.
~ Donald Miller
And there it was: setting, conflict, climax, and resolution. As silly as it seemed, it met the requirements of the heart and it matched the facts of reality
~ Donald Miller
As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.
~ Donald Trump
Bing Bing Bong Bong Bing (This is a quote)
~ Donald Trump
Creative interpretation of reality resulting from wishful thinking
~ Donna Andrews
Henry James escribió Los papeles de Aspern
~ Donna Leon
He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word "postmodernist.
~ Donna Tartt
Whatever else one may say about guilt, it certainly lends one diabolical powers of invention;
~ Donna Tartt
Aristotle said in the poetics, that objects such as corpses, painful to view in themselves, can become delightful to contemplate in a work of art.
~ Donna Tartt
That little guy, said Boris in the car on the way to Antwerp. You know the painter saw him-he wasn't painting that bird from his mind, you know? That's a real little guy, chained up on the wall, there. If I saw him mixed up with dozen other birds all the same kind, I could pick him out, no problem. And he's right. So could I. And if I could go back in time I'd clip the chain in a heartbeat and never care a minute that the picture was never painted.
~ Donna Tartt
And that's why I've chosen to write these pages as I've written them. For only by stepping into the middle zone, the polychrome edge between truth and untruth, is it tolerable to be here and writing this at all.
~ Donna Tartt
Books are written by the alone for the alone.
~ Donna Tartt