The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he…

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which…

— Sigmund Freud

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or,…

— Sigmund Freud

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

“A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”

— Roland Barthes

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is…

— John Updike

Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see.

— Barry Neil Kaufman

“whenever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world according to its own image, it cannot do otherwise;”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God creates the world anew in each moment.

— John of Ruysbroeck

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at…

— Eckhart Tolle

Thought creates our world, and then says 'I didn't do it

— David Bohm

You should always be aware that your head creates your world.

— Ken Keyes Jr

I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's…

— Christopher Walken

It is your mind that creates the world.

— Gautama Buddha