Creativity Quotes

Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.

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"The most important thing is to keep writing, to exercise the skill."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Every act of creation is an act of rebellion."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"The most human thing, to me, is the individual voice."
Harper Lee
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"With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or character, and I start to think about it."
Harper Lee
"What's the point of doing something if somebody else has already done it?"
Douglas Coupland
"Every time I hear a good idea, I want to make it."
Douglas Coupland
"The most important thing is to keep on creating."
Carson McCullers
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"Writing is the act of discovery."
Eudora Welty
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"The writer's eye is always upon himself."
Eudora Welty
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"To write something you have to love it."
Eudora Welty
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"The artist must be a seer."
Eudora Welty
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"A story has to start with interest."
Eudora Welty
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"Art comes from the deepest part of ourselves."
Eudora Welty
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"Writing teaches us about ourselves."
Eudora Welty
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"The things we invent are mirrors of our deepest nature."
Margaret Atwood
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"I don't mind being a character in someone's story, as long as it's a good story."
Margaret Atwood
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"I write to discover what I know."
Flannery O'Connor
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"A writer is someone who has taught their mind to work in imagination."
Flannery O'Connor
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"You learn to write by writing and you learn what to write about by living."
Flannery O'Connor
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"There is a certain grain of stupidity required to write."
Flannery O'Connor
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"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say."
Flannery O'Connor
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"The novelist must begin with an act of the imagination."
Flannery O'Connor
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"The writer's job is to show the interior life."
Flannery O'Connor
"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
Robertson Davies
"Not everyone is meant to be an artist, but everyone is meant to be a creator."
Robertson Davies
"Fire is the food of the gods."
Cormac McCarthy
"The creative spirit cannot thrive without periods of struggle and doubt."
Carson McCullers
"In the act of creation, we discover who we truly are."
Carson McCullers
"The creative act is an act of faith in the face of uncertainty."
Carson McCullers
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"Writing is an act of faith, not doubt."
Eudora Welty