351 Quotes About Creative-process

Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it’s utterly glorious."National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Pep Talk

Another mistake is presenting too much background information, and doing so in the first few pages. Writers should begin their stories with the event that kicks off the story, and then spoon-feed us background information only when it's needed to understand what's going on."[A Conversation with Evan Marshall (Writers Write, September 1999)]

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic."[As quoted on WritersServices, 6 March 2012]

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour.

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

You kind of attribute this magic to music and as you meet the people you realize that they don’t contain the magic. They just channel it a little bit sometimes, but they never possess it. They never own it.