Quotes About Creativity

A novelist can't be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

Shigure: G'morning. Tohru: Good morning! Yuki: Um, Shigure, it's night . Why don't you get a normal sleep pattern? Shigure: I became an author so I wouldn't have to.

You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers...

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

believing in Jesus Christ brings out the individual tallents of men in a way that is not otherwise possible, ... I percieve that those who worship the Creator are exceedingly creative.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.

A man who sets out to become an artist at the mile is something like a man who sets out to discover the most graceful method of being hanged. No matter how logical his plans, he can not carry them out without physical suffering.

He found rabbit-fur-lined underpants

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. —Herman Wouk

Neal Shusterman

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

and thereby sabotage their best selves. Aspiring entrepreneurs like Ashley have said to me, "I can't be tied down to a routine or a flow chart.

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

Art means to dare — and to have been right.

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

it is not the first language that is all-important, but which language captures the adolescent's imagination when he or she first discovers literature.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.