Quotes About Creativity

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

Anything is possible. Anything can be.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.