Quotes About Creativity

We cultivate soul by seeking depth, interiority, and connectedness - in short, by exercising imagination.

My advice is this, do whatever pleases yourself. These things don't matter. What does matter is that if you have anything worth while in you, any talent, you should deliver it. Nothing must turn you from that.

A man innocently dabbles in words and rhymes and finds that it is his life

Human beings are not very imaginative nor creative, so we try to put all our experiences into existing templates and categories based on our previous experiences.

This will force you to dig deep, exercise your creative half, and find the positive insight in any topic that arises.

give their employees wacky titles of their own choosing.

Improv comedy above all else teaches flow, and the ability to make something out of nothing – both of those things in pursuit of a common shared goal of a lasting interaction and deep connection with the people involved.

As quickly as possible, write three associations for that word. Take the last word you came up with, and then as quickly as possible, write three associations for that new word. Repeat three times, and then move to the next set of words. Napkin -> table, spoon, fine dining. Fine dining -> France, Michelin Star, butler. Butler -> Jeeves, white gloves, Michael Jackson. And so on. Practicing

Effective storytelling is all about being as specific as you can and being as detailed as you can.

How enjoyable, how very enjoyable and luxurious it is, suddenly to emerge from the stern labyrinth of fact onto these dawn-lit uplands of surmise!

Don't be afraid of finishing a book and putting it out there for the world to see. If you're waiting for perfect, your wait will never end.

A million years ago - some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew it - well done! Flash forward: 'Hello, welcome to my vlog. Today I bought a plum

Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.

There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.

Ultimately, how far away exactly does a novelist remain? At the margins of life in order to describe it, because if you are immersed in it – in the action – the image you have of it is mixed up.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

A book… it's a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

A good idea always attracts other good ideas.

But the thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas.

I want a campfire box.

I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story.

The thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas.

Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.