Advantage Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

— Kirby Wright

“The more mindless the task, the higher probability of subconscious disruption can stimulate creativity.”

— Pearl Zhu

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

— Ted Alexandro

“Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new rhythms, new…

— Stephen Dobyns

In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

— Ernst Junger

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

— Pattiann Rogers

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it…

— Viola Spolin

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just…

— Jack Kerouac

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

— Isaac D'Israeli

“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing…

— Nicholas Carr