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“Creativity is improvisation”
“Creativity helps us fight off the monotony of everyday life!”
“Creativity is encountering something unexpected”
“...never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.”
“Start small.Start now.Start everything.And dont bother to finish any of it.”
“Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative ...”
“Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, literally, responsibility. When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to the...”
“One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive.”
“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.”
“I dont experience writers block, I only have periods of severe writers diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from the...”
“New freedoms surface old habits. I haven't left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn't trying to mean the words that I write. It's living into ...”
“In the wander land, we engage ourselves in writing.”
“It is the nature of intuition to spark and guide creativity, and it's an essential ingredient for anything "new" to happen in the world at all.”
“Practice makes perfect, but it doesnt make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores.”
“Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another. By covering our bases financially, we escape the pressure to publish half-baked books, sell shoddy art, or la...”
“And be grateful that youre a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but whats between her ears.”
“Lets end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did. You might want to give them away...”
“Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.”
“Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.”
“Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment. / For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike / down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment. / For the adjustments after, align...”
