There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a… — Charlie Korsmo Copy Share Image
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I figured that I could do anything if I was simply methodical about it. I went to the library - and… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative, I… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I look for good directors mainly because if you do enough of movies where there's not a real creative vision behind it,… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I think that the creative process, especially in the beginning of making an album, I'm feeling very fragile, so to speak, because… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work. — Teresa Amabile Copy Share Image
In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the… — Letitia Baldrige Copy Share Image
Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The magic happens in the creative studios. But sometimes you're inspired when you're removed from it a little bit. That's when the… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done. — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I think that might also be part of the life of a creative person - those sort of ups and downs and… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I had a couple albums out that sold well for who I was at the time and the type of music I… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
