Creative Process Quotes

Creative Process Quote of the day

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault

Creativity is an inherently human trait that allowed us to dominate our environment and make our way to the top of the food chain.

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.

I write to believe in goodness.

When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.", 6 March 2012]

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.

Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

The creative journey is not a trek through the wilderness, but actually a clearly defined path, which though not visible to our outside eyes, can be felt with our inner senses.

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

A creative person aspires to devote the core state of their mind fixated upon performing the surge of work that expresses the raw passion driving an evolving notion of their quintessence.

Passion is a deep love for sacred activity.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

Sometimes to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

When dreams come true creativity becomes art.

When someone asks me what a song is about, it’s like, I feel like I might ruin it if you ask me that. I feel like I did my best to explain the song in the song on its own terms as a song.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.