Creative Quotes

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Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was right to look… — Maggie Stiefvater
Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used… — David Byrne
... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard… — Russell Brand
I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim."… — Richelle Mead
If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those… — Howard Zinn
Some of this bookâ€”perhaps too muchâ€”has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it… — Stephen King
Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often… — Lewis Hyde
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive — Karl Lagerfeld
Yes, but Iâ€™ve already made my fortune in other things. (Solin) Such as? (Geary) Viagra. My brother learned to take a personal problem and profit… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls… — Julia Cameron
Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if… — Julia Cameron
The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines. — Irvin D. Yalom
Fine, you fun-vampire. Iâ€™ll take my scroll over here and play by myself. (Kat) Fun-vampire? What is that? (Sin) That would be you sucking all… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment… — Martin Buber
The urge for destruction is also a creative urge! — Mikhail Bakunin
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and… — Mary Oliver
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — A. S. Byatt
The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true. — Virginia C. Andrews
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and,… — Margaret Mahy
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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