Creative Quote by Nadine Gordimer

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

— Nadine Gordimer

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

— Rollo May

“The creative act is not pure.”

— Nadine Gordimer

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and…

— Terence McKenna

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure…

— Mary Ruefle

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this…

— Michael Leunig

“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is not licensed…

— Hilary Mantel

“I see the creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing..and you will find all manner of dishonor.…

— Khaled Hosseini

“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and…

— Terence McKenna

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

— Carl Jung

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

— Rollo May

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown