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Creativity Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“I never started from ideas but always from character.”
Ivan Turgenev
2.
“As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there’s no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better – but you keep working anyway.”
Ivan Turgenev
3.
“Rule of art: Can’t kills creativity!”
Camille Paglia
4.
“The moment there is imagination, there is myth.”
Camille Paglia
5.
“My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.”
Camille Paglia
6.
“There is nothing more important to me than the power of words to describe, re-create, entrance, and provoke.”
Camille Paglia
7.
“Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.”
Camille Paglia
8.
“Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.”
Camille Paglia
9.
“I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.”
Camille Paglia
10.
“The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.”
Camille Paglia
11.
“The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.”
Camille Paglia
12.
“No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.”
Camille Paglia
13.
“If people want to be better writers, they can’t just read the blogs! You’ve got to look at something that’s outside this rushing world of evanescent words.”
Camille Paglia
14.
“Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.”
John D. Rockefeller
15.
“For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.”
Guy Kawasaki
16.
“The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.”
Guy Kawasaki
17.
“Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: “I need money to buy tools.” You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!”
Guy Kawasaki
18.
“For me, while writing, I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, move a section, reorganize the section—anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I’m a writer.”
Guy Kawasaki
19.
“It’s hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.”
Guy Kawasaki
20.
“Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.”
Guy Kawasaki
21.
“Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.”
Guy Kawasaki
22.
“Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.”
Guy Kawasaki
23.
“Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.”
Guy Kawasaki
24.
“Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there’s always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.”
Guy Kawasaki
25.
“I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. – Ludwig van Beethoven.”
Guy Kawasaki
26.
“I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.”
Mitch Hedberg
27.
“I’d like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.”
Mitch Hedberg
28.
“I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add “er”.”
Mitch Hedberg
29.
“I’m gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.”
Mitch Hedberg
30.
“I type a 101 words a minute. But it’s in my own language.”
Mitch Hedberg
31.
“I like cottage cheese. That’s why I want to try other dwelling cheeses, too. How about studio apartment cheese? Tent cheese? Mobile home cheese? Do not eat mobile home cheese in a tornado.”
Mitch Hedberg
32.
“The true poet dreams being awake.”
Charles Lamb
33.
“While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.”
Charles Lamb
34.
“The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.”
Charles Lamb
35.
“I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.”
Charles Lamb
36.
“Artists are always young.”
Margaret Fuller
37.
“Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.”
Margaret Fuller
38.
“We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.”
Margaret Fuller
39.
“Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”
Margaret Fuller
40.
“This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.”
Margaret Fuller
41.
“I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don’t accidentally walk through into another dimension.”
Steven Wright
42.
“I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.”
Steven Wright
43.
“I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.”
Steven Wright
44.
“Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.”
Steven Wright
45.
“It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.”
Steven Wright
46.
“I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.”
Steven Wright
47.
““Write from Beyond what you know. From the authority of your senses.” – author of Meditations in Green.”
Steven Wright
48.
“I’m actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close-up photo of the horizon.”
Steven Wright
49.
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.”
Steven Wright
50.
“All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic herbals for ceramic cats.”
Steven Wright
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