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“All good work requires self-revelation.”
“Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.”
“He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's ...”
“The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.”
“Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.”
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.”
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.”
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
“How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?”
“Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: t...”
“You cannot teach creativityhow to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. Mario Vargas Llosa”
“The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.”
“DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your growth as an artist?EA: It didn't -- it stunted it entirely. I gave...”
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order”
“Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again.""Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?”
“The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more ab...”
“Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.”
“The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.”
“A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.”
