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Creative-Process  Quotes
You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred...

—Anthon St. Maarten

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Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as...

—Michael Michalko

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Everyone lies about writing. They lie about how easy it is or how hard it was. They perpetuate a romantic idea that writing is some beautiful experience that takes place in an architectural room filled...

—Amy Poehler

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Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don’t yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices.”[Ten rules for writing fiction (The...

—Helen Dunmore

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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...

—Junot Díaz

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Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to...

—P.D. James

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It’s neither and it’s both. That’s the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist’s intention.

—Ted Dekker

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The Scholars”Bald heads forgetful of their sins,Old, learned, respectable bald headsEdit and annotate the linesThat young men, tossing on their beds,Rhymed out in love’s despairTo flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.They’ll cough in the ink to the...

—W.B. Yeats

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Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when...

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don’t feel that way about it. Sometimes it’s difficult....

—Cormac McCarthy

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Creativity is a magic wand that works two ways. When you set it in action and seek to create something, it does not just brings into existence that object or work, it also raises in...

—Jyoti Arora

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When someone asks me what a song is about, it’s like, I feel like I might ruin it if you ask me that. I feel like I did my best to explain the song in...

—Kyle Morton

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I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. No one reads for fun,...

—T.C. Boyle

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Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don’t believe it, but for the purposes of this argument, let’s say it’s so. Only a few of us are going...

—Ann Patchett

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Creative-ProcessDisappointmentHeartbreak
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So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving...

—Graham Greene

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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

—David McCullough

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Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.

—Jennifer Allwood

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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.

—Truman Capote

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you areso deliciousto my poetic side.

—Sanober Khan

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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you’re...

—Agatha Christie

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Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: ‘My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, “The Cookiepants Hypotenuse.”‘ Or else they get...

—Connie Willis

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Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

—Lorii Myers

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Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

—Mark Batterson

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We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.

—Walt Stanchfield

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Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true to the way you were created.

—Timothy Simpson

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Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa,...

—Cornell Woolrich

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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.

—Octavia E.

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Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get...

—Neil Gaiman

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Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

—Tom Althouse

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intolerable compliment.” Over a sketch made idly to amuse a child, an artist may not take much trouble: he may be content to let it go even though it is not exactly as he meant...

—C.S. Lewis

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Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”(Casual Chance, 1964)

—Colette

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Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.”[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January...

—John Green

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Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU … you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world.

—Jennifer Allwood

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Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body...

—Will Self

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poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

—Sanober Khan

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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.

—Elmore Leonard

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She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.

—Kelli Russell

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[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.”(Interview, The...

—P.G. Wodehouse

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For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

—Ryan Lilly

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ArtContagiousContagiousness
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She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or...

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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Write. Don’t talk about writing. Don’t tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don’t give me a bunch of ‘somedays’. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it...

—Glen Cook

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When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then...

—John Steinbeck

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I make them up,’ I tell them. ‘Out of my head.

—Neil Gaiman

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[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an ‘idealistic’...

—Umberto Eco

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Every story has already been told. Once you’ve read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason...

—Anna Quindlen

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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

—Colette

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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show. If a writer omits...

—Ernest Hemingway

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I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault

—Kanye West

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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.

—Rainbow Rowell

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