Quotes About Creativity

There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

Bir silgi gibi tükendim ben Ba?kalar?n?n yapt?klar?n? silmeye çal??t?m Mürekkeple yazm??lar oysa.. Ben kur?unkalem silgisiydim Azald???mla kald?m..

Selim, insan?n yarat?c? hayal gücünü öldürüyordu. Kambur duru?u, da??n?k saçlar? ve ütüsüz elbisesiyle Selim, insan? can s?k?nt?s? ve ümitsizli?e sürüklüyordu. ?nsan ona bak?nca, gerçi bir süre kendinden memnun oluyordu; fakat sonunda can? s?k?l?yordu.

Y?llard?r günlük tutmay? hayal ederdim. ?imdi vaktim var: bir ?ey dü?ünemiyorum. Yazd?klar?m? okudum: aptalca sözler etmi?im. Kendimi kötülemeye söz vermi?tim: onu da yapam?yorum. ?nsan Kafka'y? okuyamazsa... bitiktir i?i. Bir silgi gibi tükendim ben. Ba?kalar?n?n yapt?klar?n? silmeye çal??t?m: mürekkeple yazm??lar oysa. Ben, kur?unkalem silgisiydim. Azald???mla kald?m.

Dü?üncemin duvarlar?na resimler asmak istedi?im halde bir türlü olmad?.

Co?kun:… Art?k benim sesimi de dinlemeli insanlar! ?ster keman sesi olsun,ister oyun sesi;yeni bir ses getirmeliyim bu dünyaya!

Yazma i?ini b?rakt?m. Esasl? bir adam olsayd?m b?rakmazd?m. Her davran???m?n yans?nda, ba?ka bir heyecana kapt?r?yordum kendimi. Heyecan m?? Bak bunu unutmu?tum, diye m?r?ldand?m. (Yaln?z olunca insan daha rahat davran?r: m?r?ldan?r.)

?nsanlar, yaln?zca kitaplarda ?a??r?rlar. Romanc?lar ?a??rt?r onlar?

Kötü bir resim asar?m korkusuyla hiç resim asmad?m; kötü ya?ar?m korkusuyla hiç ya?amad?m

Numano?lu Selim derler ad?m?z Gürültüye geldi her feryad?m?z Nedense tamamd?r itikad?m?z Dikilen her kuma? bol gelir bize

Ben ucuz bir romand?m. Hay?r, kötü bir edebiyat?n bile bir gerçekli?i vard?: Can s?k?c? taklitçileri bile benden gerçekti. Ben yoktum; hatta ben yokum, olmad?m diyemeyecek bir yerdeydim; kelimeler bile yanyana gelerek beni tan?mlamak istemezlerdi. Ne olurdu benim de kelimelerim olsayd?; bana ait bir cümle, bir dü?ünce olsayd?. Binlerce y?ld?r söylenen milyonlarca sözden hiç olmazsa biri, beni içine alsayd?!

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.

Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance, or lean.

I think anyone who builds a house without a pole sliding into a secret room is just plain crazy.

With no Foo, those on earth could no longer dream. With no dreams there is no hope, and mankind cannot survive without hope.

And the rule I gave myself was that I had to invent at least one thing new every day and also read a book everyday. For many years now that has been my fixed rule.

Les savants ne les comprennent pas et, la plupart du temps, ils les méprisent, parce qu'ils ont trop d'orgueil… Pour aimer les vers, il suffit d'avoir une âme… une petite âme toute nue, comme une fleur… Les poètes parlent aux âmes des simples, des tristes, des malades… Et c'est en cela qu'ils sont éternels… Sais-tu bien que, lorsqu'on a de la sensibilité, on est toujours un peu poète ?…

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Fantasy is totally wide open all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.