Creativity Quotes

"The desire to create is the desire to live and to grow."

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."

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

"I sit at my typewriter and I only know the people that I am writing about at that moment."

"The act of creation is a supreme mystery that we cannot fully grasp or comprehend."

"Everybody thinks writers should be happy all the time because writing is a privilege."

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well."

"Writers are made, not born."

"You write until you come to a place where you still have juice."

"A writer needs three things: experience, observation, and imagination."

"To be a writer, you must be curious about everything and everyone."

"Creativity is the ability to make connections."

"A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."

"The way to write is to write what is in your heart."

"It's a wonderful feeling to be writing, it takes you away from the world."

"The beautiful thing about writing is that you don't have to explain yourself."

"I never really looked back after I started writing."

"The desire to create is deeply human and never truly disappears."

"The fastest way to become a writer is to move to Paris."

"True originality consists not in novelty of manner, but in clarity of vision."

"The mind wants to live forever or to create forever."

"The writer's aim is not to record what has been, but to show what might be."

"I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate!"

"There is something in the moment when a great story comes alive within you."

"Every artist makes himself born; it is very much harder than the other time."

"The truly ambitious man creates when he cannot find what he desires."

"To be creative, one must first reject the false hope of security."

"The first draft of anything is always garbage."

"Writing requires both discipline and spontaneity."

"Hemingway noted that every writer must find their own voice."