Creativity Quote by Lionel Shriver

A sensitive person is seldom happy with the world the way it is. And since you cannot change it, you think, 'Might as well…

— Pooja Bhatt

“I think ‘slow writing’ is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the ‘slow food’ movement. Anxiety and panic…

— Rosaleen Love

What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.

— Alex Steffen

“For creatives, slipping into an overly conceptual mode and ignoring your emotional intuitions, or simply becoming emotionally numb to your environment, is a very…

— Todd Henry

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals…

— Paul Brunton

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.

— Anita Roddick

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

“Whatever pain achieves, it achieves in part through its unsharability, and it ensures this unsharability through its resistance to language. “English,” writes Virginia Woolf,…

— Elaine Scarry

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored…

— Matthea Harvey

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, overreacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

— Vikas Runwal

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage…

— A. N. Wilson

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

— Carolyn Chute