Creativity Writing Quotes
Creativity Writing Quote of the day
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!
Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.
In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.
Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.
The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.
He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.
Every impression ever made on a person from newborn babyhood onwards will contribute to the shape and texture of the imagination.
We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don't let it consume you.
When I discovered music — when I discovered the craft of shaping a song — my being fell into place.
Creativity is the most supreme form of love. When it flows from any heart flooded by truth and light, it can change all those who encounter its seductive vibrations.
After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.
Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.
Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
It’s incredible how small the English language gets when you’re trying to make it fix something.
Creativity is salve for the soul
My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps.” ― Michael P. Naughton,
Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.
