Creative Quotes

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The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not… — Milan Kundera
Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork. — Joyce Carol Oates
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose. — Laurie Alberts
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be. — Ayn Rand
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. — Ayn Rand
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a… — Ayn Rand
A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÃ•s… — James Scott
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are… — John Irving
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell
All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution. — Bill Drayton
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy
It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working. — Philippe Petit
Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility. — Swami Nithyananda
I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I… — Milton S. Hershey
Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity. — Christopher Zeeman
Good design is thorough, down to the last detail. — Dieter Rams
He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death. — Umberto Eco

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