Quotes About Creativity

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

If he didn't like the writing, then he didn't like her, and everything she had done in her whole life would be for nothing.

some things were just meant to be good stories

Then quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Minecraft was dangerous but exciting. He sometimes wished to go there.

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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve

I have never met a writer who didn't need an editor, and an editor without a writer is a person without a job. It is a fraught and often-imperfect relationship, of course, dating back to the beginning of time. You remember; after God moved upon the darkness, he proclaimed, "I've put in place some very wondrous illumination here!" And Mrs. God gently suggested the more pithy: 'Let there be light.

At an academic conference I learned the old adage that everything has been said, but not everyone has said it.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Si dirigiera un negocio, me encantaría conocer las ideas de sus trabajadores más jóvenes, pues son los que tienen un mayor contacto con la realidad y las perspectivas de futuro.

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.

Having screwed around the last hour trying to decide whether to write in the style of Isaac Asimov (that version featured Caitlin as a Venusian chick with one eye and three breasts) or Dr. Seuss ("I am Nick/Nick is sick/Nick tells Debbie to…" well, you get the idea)

It's not about exact measurements or ingredients', shrugged Lomax, when Joseph complained. 'Good food is about feeling. Cooking is an art, not a science. You got to have soul to feed people right.' He smiled. 'That's what this is. Soul food.