351 Quotes About Creative-process
- Author Elmore Leonard
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My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
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- Author Bernard Kelvin Clive
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Embrace failure as much as you can; that's how great art is created. If you are too careful you kill the creativity.
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- Author Louis Yako
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I hope, wherever we are, we start to decolonize knowledge production through rekindling that deep and strong spark between the heart and the mind; through understanding that the path to objectivity goes through the painful corridors of subjectivity.
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- Author Junot Díaz
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You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]
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- Author Rainbow Rowell
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The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Why does it seem as if the poorly adjusted people – the misfits and social outsiders – create art and the most sane and rational of the human species make money? Does creating art require a person to tap into the irrational magma of their soul?
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- Author Sebastian Marincolo
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A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others, and to come to deep insights. If you don’t find this amazing you have lost your sense of wonder. Which, by the way, is something a high can bring back, too.
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- Author Janey Colbourne
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Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.
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- Author Anton Chekhov
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Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)
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