Creativity Quotes

"I'd rather be a free spinster with a pen"

"I have always believed I was born to be a writer."

"I have artistic talent and I mean to make the best of it."

"It's nice to have people admire your talents."

"I am the source of stories."

"I have lots of things to tell, but I don't know where to begin."

"Here is the thing, Miss Celie: don't never know how something come out til you try to make it."

"I would construct a world in which he could live and express himself."

"I love to hear myself sing sometimes."

"I don't believe I ever had much of a talent for improvisation."

"Let's make a quilt out of all our scraps."

"I made pants instead of dresses. I made myself instead of waiting."

"I must create my own meaning in this world."

"Each number is a room, I make up as I go."

"The pattern must be woven together."

"I have constructed an invisible structure of sound around myself."

"Do you want me to tell you a story?"

"The quilt tell our story."

"Her imagination had betrayed them all."

"Imagination was both gift and curse."

"I got my sewing and my friends."

"She had written herself into a corner."

"The duty of the writer was to tell the truth, whatever the cost."

"The line between madness and genius is thinner than we believe"

"Writing is the only immortality a man can truly achieve."

"In the story, I kept things in proportion."

"The act of writing was both confession and concealment."

"Creativity is the breath of the soul."

"Writing was the only redemption available to her."

"She wrote her own stories to replace the ones that had been stolen from her."