Quotes About Creativity

The writing life: frustration, fear, independence, exhilaration, worry, adventure, a sense of the unknown.

Make art from your own life. Bring insight to your suffering, find distance, and in your maturity, write about it. Conflict & drama are the essence of a novel.

Every writer has doubts. The only way to dispel them is to write.

Harness your dragons. Turn them into stories.

Whatever art--writing, painting, sculpture, acting, dance, music, or any other--there will be frustration & travails. It's all worth it

No one can live a full life alone & isolated, least of all a writer

Writing creates new people & worlds. When you read, you enter into new people & worlds. When you read and write, it's the best of all worlds.

Write fearlessly, from the heart; pour your guts out and don't give a damn about what anyone thinks.

There's a novel in every life's story. You must have courage, perseverance and use imagination to unearth it.

When you walk, cherish the silence. Let your mind wander. The child within picks up crayons & begins to write.

I sometimes surprise myself when one of my characters says something I would never say.

Creativity isn't defined by word count, or the number of books one has published. A writer makes a commitment to stretch as far as possible, reaching for the music of words.

There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. A writer's task is to arrange them into sentences telling a unique story with guts, heart & soul.

The writing life is not for the timid. It's filled with challenge, uncertainty & frustration, but it's a beautiful, expansive & creative one

Reading is the never-ending apprenticeship for writing ~ Mark Rubinstein

I truly believe a novelist must arrive at an altered state of consciousness to reach that creative zone where the fingers fly & the words flow.

Guard your writing time--zealously. It's precious, even if it's only one or two hours a day.

The interaction between author and reader is the most intimate in the world of art. The reader's imagination shares and completes the writer's.

A writer has only three tools: language, experience and imagination.

A writer's downfall is chasing the marketplace. Doing that, you only see it's rear end. Write from the heart, not for the market.

Don't think. Imagine. Imagination is the firebed of a novel

When you really get down to it, good writing (or good art of any kind) taps deeply into feelings more than anything else.

A good novel is like a fairy tale, a movie, a play, a jazz piece & a symphony resonating in the mind, each in its own way.

A writer's most potent tools are the inner mind and the shameless courage to explore it.