At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if...

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

People ask me how to start writing. I tell them that ‘Creating Creates Creativity’. Put your notes and outline aside. Start with one anecdote or conversation, and that will lead to another and another. It’s...

I realized there really is a natural interplay between my spirituality and my creativity. When I enter into a spirit of prayer, I can cultivate a receptive space and actually ask God for creative ideas...

Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ – it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one...

He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting, and obsessively re-polishing lines and paragraphs with a jeweler’s precision.But it was not...

Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations – they are the most graceful media in which the...

Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling off the social mask that hides my; shadow self, pain and weakness. When...

Life of scarcity teaches creativity.

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.

The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.

I’ve had a fountain pen surgically implanted in my left index finger to save trouble. My body is tattooed with line upon line of truth, fiction, and a not-always-pleasing mix of the two.

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...

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.

I’d rather be nine people’s favorite thing than a hundred people’s ninth favorite thing.

You don’t create or write to be successful; you don’t create or paint to be famous or to increase your wealth. You do all of these things because your soul is calling you to do...

Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We’re sorry, but no… and then more beautiful things. It’s a shit sandwich with branston pickle and melted gouda.I read it out loud to the kids. I stick...

Creativity is a delicious dream from which I never want to awake.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and...

Lewis had said that there is no creativity de novo in us—that we are all sub-creators pirating and rearranging portions of reality. I agreed. But it was only an idea. And then it took on...

We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are...

An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas...

decorate” it; she infused it.

Creativity is a talent we inherit from God.

To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if...

When a person reaches the end of a book and says, ‘I want to read that again,’ what he’s actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among...

How To Be An Explorer Of The World1. Always Be LOOKING (notice the ground beneath your feet.)2. Consider Everything Alive & Animate3. EVERYTHING Is Interesting. Look Closer.4. Alter Your Course Often.5. Observe For Long Durations...

Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers....

Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

Often we are identified with either the inner man or woman, while the other side is hidden and unexpressed. Outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner man and...

Nothing is more memorable than truth beautifully told.

We all are creative by nature, but our creativity gets buried deep under the pressure of our day to day mad rush.

For certain you can be helped, should you accept it. But as far as being made…no one can do that. This occurred on the day you were born. An earth day is not a birth...

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a...

The conventional mind is passive – it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they’d rather play with yours than theirs. Or...

After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he experienced the approach of what is called inspiration. At such moments the correlation...

What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life