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“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.”
“You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being...”
“When creativity is seen as more important than facts, we will find ourselves in a world where problems are solved more often than spoken of.”
“Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.”
“When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talen...”
“If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.”
“Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.”
“I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing.”
“Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.”
“Spending longer thinking about the problem before you dive in is likely to lead to higher levels of creativity in the final product.”
“I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.”
“What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.”
“The imagination doesnt crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatevers there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of gl...”
“It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....probl...”
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.”
“Question: Youre 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing.”
“The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.”
“How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I know him? At the very most we are like two strangers meeting in the white wintry veld and sitting down together for a...”
“..the writers obsession the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.”
“To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness ...”
