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“Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.”
“Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.”
“Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.”
“We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own li...”
“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”
“Creativity finds its own creator.”
“A Seed for Contemplation:Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people ...”
“And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit it--fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid them--in a...”
“The twin aspects of genius, the passive and the active, are possessed by the fully realized artist; they also form the necessary equipment of the Adept. Yet in very few people are these twin aspect...”
“Try your ideas. You might surprise yourself.”
“A great writer picks up on those things that matter. Its almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.”
“Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery" ~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47)”
“In other words, if Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy showed more than their fair share of pathology it was due less to the requirements of their creative work than to the personal sufferings caused by the un...”
“Poetry lets me pour out my various emotions even the suppressed ones we didn't know exist inside us' til the moment you start jotting down what you're feeling. It's more than an escape into the unk...”
“It is when we develop both our inner man and woman that we find a new harmony and wholeness within ourselves. Healing means to develop and integrate our inner man and woman so that love can flow be...”
“A writer's mind can never be empty.”
“Love means to understand the drama that happens between the inner man and woman. It means to allow both the inner man and woman to find their creative roots and expression.”
“If the spirit of wonder & curiosity stays alive in us, then surely we will always have new questions, and always expand our creativity in response?”
“You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life”
“People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.”
