Creativity Quotes

"Everything you can think of, you can create."

"We need to be free to create, and creation thrives where there is equality and justice."

"Every word I write is an act of defiance against those who would silence me."

"I write not to condemn, but to illuminate what has been hidden."

"I write to create a conversation across generations and across barriers."

"To find one's voice is to discover the purpose of one's existence."

"To create is to affirm the value of existence."

"Sweat, blood, and tears—that is the price of creation."

"Write about yourself as if you are someone else."

"The artistic struggle is a struggle against silence, a struggle to articulate experience."

"I became a writer because writing seemed like the only socially acceptable form of insanity."

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive."

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

"Creativity requires the courage to be wrong."

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way to do anything good."

"The writer's voice is the deepest part of his identity."

"The writer must write what he knows and feels."

"Creativity requires the freedom to fail."

"I write about what I see and what I feel, without apology."

"Every generation must find its own voice and tell its own story."

"The first draft of anything is garbage."

"I never had to choose a word in my life that came any easier to me."

"It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way."

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind."

"I suppose all writers are a little mad."

"The gods who create frequently are all of the masculine gender."

"You write in order to change the world."

"It is hard for me to believe that an artist can ever be satisfied, since art comes out of a human need to express what is not."

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive."