Creativity Quote by Karl Ove Knausgaard Download Open image ““Writing is more about destroying than creating" (195).”” — Karl Ove Knausgaard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity Writing
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery” — Cristina Istrati Copy Share Image
“When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than typing words: Any action that is instrumental in completing a writing project counts as writing.” — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
“Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you write.” — H.P. Oliver Copy Share Image
I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood.… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
“Until I moved to Stockhold I had felt there was a continuity to my life, as if it stretched unbroken from childhood up to… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
