How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

Comparison is the enemy to creativity.

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it...

Lies can open up the doors to imagination.

We shouldn’t let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order...

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately crack the edifice by screwing with meaning, structure, grammar, the fourth...

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the...

Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for...

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog’s lifestyle.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul

If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas … and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Others...

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It’s a vicious cycle.

Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

As an observer of human nature, let’s just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it is, the better it sells.

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. … If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats.

Working with people is basically not a question of formal education; working with people is a question of energy and awareness. Everyone can basically work with people. It is a question of developing a presence...

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when...

I don’t get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn’t know which one to start next, block.

I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.

And so it was that Michael built a brown castle on the peak of his mountain, Gabriel built a golden pyramid in the midst of his plain, saying it was both a holy temple in...

It is a burden…(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is...

I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white...

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in...

Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is saidIt was the dream itself enchanted me(“The Circus Animal’s Desertion”)

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!

IF you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as ” Do it yourself project.

Writing for children “compels you to throw all the force of the book into what was done and said. It checks what a kind, but discerning critic called ‘the expository demon’ in me.

Choose to not worry at all, freeing your creative mind and spirit to solve your problems.

At the very basic level all people are creators. We are all creating at every moment.

Ah!” said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them.

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

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.

So many important New York musicians were gay, one wit dubbed the American Composers League the Homintern.

YOU DON’T KNOW IF YOUR IDEA IS ANY GOOD the moment it’s created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. And trusting your feelings...

Social Media begins with a story – your story.

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.