Quotes About Creativity

My favorite book is my next one. I'm always hoping to make my next book my best one.

We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

When Communism has been realized, everyone will be a novelist.

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

No person writes to win awards.

Io mi immersi di colpo lasciandomi sopra la testa e dietro le spalle ogni suono, come farebbe un grande scrittore.

Then I thought, Maybe it doesn't need a bass part as much as it needs a bass sound. I turned on my Roland Juno-106 synth and created a very simple and understated bass sound. All low end, no attack, no high end. Just simple, anchoring bass. I played it over the chords and it worked. Most people wouldn't even notice the bass; it just sat there underneath the song, holding it together.

And what if the Rockets only had 99 legs.

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

It was Hannah Arendt who first noted, back in 1951, that "totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.

That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we're seized with; That he must hold in check the great impatience We feel to give the world these idle pastimes; For, through this eagerness to show our works, 'Tis likely we shall cut a foolish figure.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble with the others.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

You see him laboring to produce bons mots.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

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The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

That often happens when you plan a story to tell someone, because while you are planning it you write all the dialogue yourself – theirs as well as yours – and then, of course, they don't know their part.

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

We are the imagining animals. We are the ones who participate in the earth's evolutionary process of imagination. For what is every manifest life-form and activity on earth if not the product of earth's imagination? Imagination, which is a form of memory moving both forward and backward in time; i.e., the creative process itself. Perhaps