Creativity Quotes

"Anything that does not come from within is not worth having."

"Maybe the most creative act is deciding what to pay attention to."

"To create is to struggle, and struggle is the meaning of life."

"Talent is like a muscle; if you don't use it, you lose it."

"One must create in order to live fully."

"Creativity is the ability to see what others cannot."

"A man must build something to understand what it means to exist."

"Writing is a solitary activity, but it's also a conversation with the reader."

"Writing is about the exhilaration of using words to discover what you're thinking."

"Desire is the engine of narrative."

"Literature is a form of revenge against life."

"The writer's greatest gift is the ability to see the ordinary as extraordinary."

"To write is to confront the inadequacy of language."

"The power of narrative lies in its ability to make the impossible seem inevitable."

"I write to discover what I believe."

"In any case, I claim not to know how the stories come to be, and I am always reading some old lady's advice in a magazine on how to write stories if you want to be a writer."

"I don't feel as if I know him until I have written about him for weeks."

"The writer is initially set going by circumstance and is usually helpless against his material."

"The author must be able to project himself into other people in such a way that he can imagine their actions."

"I am always irritated by the notion that when you are not writing, you are wasting your time."

"The writer of any discipline must be in some fashion like a bum."

"The creative act is an assertion of human freedom against an indifferent universe."

"The creative person is simply one who refuses to accept things as they are."

"Creativity is intelligence having fun with itself."

"What enables the release of all this passion that's inside you is the fact that you're writing fiction."

"We construct our lives the way a writer constructs a novel."

"To write is to explore the boundaries of the possible."

"Creativity is the act of destroying the old to make room for the new."

"Writer, when you're young, you're very confident. It's like a marvelous wine."

"I am a human, and I think what comes out of a human is human, even if it's written down or drawn or painted or sculpted or modeled or published."