Quotes About Creativity

Spartan surroundings, yes, but surroundings have never been of any importance as far as your work is concerned, since the only space you occupy when you write your books is the page in front of your nose,

La poesía es algo hermoso, pero no vale la pena que se te congele el culo por ella.

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

if a child is not allowed to enter the imaginary, he will never come to grips with the real.

My mind was a blithering gush, a pandemonium of rhapsodic thoughts.

That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab, humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you can do it by reaching out your hand to a stranger. It doesn't matter what form it takes. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

How to get out of the room that is the book that will go on being written for as long as he stays in the room?

Ma in una cosa è identica a sua madre: che salvo rare eccezioni, quando parla dice solo ovvietà - tutto quel repertorio di frasi fatte e idee usate che riempie le pattumiere della saggezza contemporanea. [...] Ahi, ahi, povera Rachel…proprio non ne poteva fare a meno. La mia unica figlia stava al mondo da ventinove anni e non era mai riuscita a produrre una frase originale, con un qualcosa di totalmente e irriducibilmente suo.

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

Contrary to what many people want to believe, the novel is in good shape these days, as healthy and vigorous as it's ever been. It's an inexhaustible form, and no matter what the pessimists say, it's never going to die... Because a novel is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. The reader and the writer make the book together. No other art can capture the essential inwardness of human life.

Think of the satisfaction [...] of crawling into bed and knowing that your dreams are about to take place on top of nineteenth-century American literature. Imagine the pleasure of sitting down to a meal with the entire Renaissance lurking below your food. In point of fact, I had no idea which books were in which boxes, but I was a great one for making up stories back then, and I liked the sound of those sentences, even if they were false.

No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.

Els escriptors som éssers ferits. Per això creiem amb una altra realitat.

Pero de repente, después de todo este tiempo, siento que tengo algo que decir y que si no lo escribo rápidamente, mi cabeza estallará.

??te ben bunun hayalini kurdum Kemik Bey. Dünyay? daha iyi bir yer haline getirmenin hayalini. Ruhun kasvetli, karanl?k kuytular?na biraz olsun güzellik katmak istedim. Bunu bir ekmek k?zart?c?s?yla yapabilirsin, bir ?iirle yapabilirsin, elini bir yabanc?ya uzatarak yapabilirsin. Nas?l yapt???n hiç önemli de?il. Dünyay? buldu?undan daha iyi bir durumda b?rakmak. ?nsan?n elinden gelecek en iyi ?ey budur

If everyone keeps asking you the same questions, maybe you have to come up with new answers just to stay awake.

Due artisti nella stessa casa potrebbero essere troppi. Qualcuno deve occuparsi dell'aspetto pratico delle cose, eh, Willie? Ci vuole gente di tutti i tipi per fare il mondo.

el arte era una actividad humana que se apoyaba en los sentidos para llegar al alma,

Iedere schrijver beoordeelt zichzelf - meestal hardvochtig - en dat is waarschijnlijk de reden dat schrijvers blijven schrijven: in de ijdele hoop dat ze het er de volgende keer beter van afbrengen.

At 4:32 I arrive at my desk, read what I have written the day before, rip it up, eat it, then sit, absolutely motionless for a period of six hours and eighteen minutes, waiting to be inspired

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You are making music in the shadow of the gallows.

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

whatever we do, let us not default to one form of music as the apex of quality and religious acceptability. God is far too creative and God's world far too diverse to be limited to a single cultural expression.