Quotes About Creativity

That was when Angel Wells became a fiction writer, whether he knew it or not. That's when he learned how to make the make-believe matter to him more than real life mattered to him; that's when he learned how to paint a picture that was not real and never would be real, but in order to be believed at all—even on a sunny Indian summer day—it had to be better made and seem more real than real; it had to sound at least possible.

As in many things, my mother could be extremely accomplished without being in the least original or even inventive.

Imaginer les choses vaut mieux que se les rappeler », avait écrit Garp.

Jack had inquired if much music had been written for organ and cello—he certainly hadn't heard any—but the woman from Sibelius Academy said that Ritva and Hannele were famous for being "improvisational.

He had just one vowel and one consonant left.

WHY SHOULD SOMEONE WHO'S GOT SUCH A WORKED-OUT WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD BORE YOU? WHY SHOULDN'T YOU BE INTERESTED IN SOMEONE WHO'S WORKED OUT A WAY TO SEE THE WORLD? THAT'S WHAT MAKES WRITERS INTERESTING!

She told all the would-be biographers, exactly as he would have, "Read the work. Forget the life.

Robertson Davies

What young writer is attracted to a sunny disposition?

The destruction of art by sociology and psychoanalysis," he called it.

What impossible matter will he make easy next?

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

I almost always have a notebook with me... a notebook is a nice thing to have in a room, the same way it's nice to have a musical instrument in a stand. .. it makes the household gods happy.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.