Creativity Writing Quotes

Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.

Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Creativity expands the mind, stretches it beyond ordinary human comprehension, resulting in the mind being elastic and capable of transcending and discerning complex ideas.

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

I’ve had a fountain pen surgically implanted in my left index finger to save trouble. My body is tattooed with line upon line of truth, fiction, and a not-always-pleasing mix of the two.

When I pour a bowl of Uncle Sam’s cereal, I never know if I should stand when I eat, salute it first, or simply hum the Star Spangled Banner between mouthfuls.

I can't keep myself from creativity. Ideas flash like lightning burning my bones. It must flow out of my hands or it will burst me apart.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

Write like you have many readers.

Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.

The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.

Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

Writing is painting for the imagination!

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

Arrogance kills creativity.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

Anything creative requires a bit of acting, and filling in blanks with imagination.

I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing.

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. (“Mad House”)

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.

The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity.

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.

I can’t help but to wonder and write.

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

There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.

A man who wants time to read and write lets the grass grow long.

Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.

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.

Imagination is a divine mind.

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.