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“The human mind is an endless vast of miraculous wonders.”
“Imagination is a divine mind.”
“We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the ...”
“Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?”
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
“From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.”
“The mind is a universe, and it has the power to completely create any possibility.”
“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
“A deadline is, simply put, optimism in its most kick-ass form. It's a potent force that, when wielded with respect, will level any obstacle in its path. This is especially true when it comes to cre...”
“All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.”
“The power of the written word goes way beyond the page on which it is written”
“It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.”
“The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Every...”
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”
“The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.”
“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alc...”
“I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.”
“If I have a spreadsheet that can, whatever, turn soup cans into gold, wouldn't I deserve an office?”
