Creativity Quote by Russell Banks

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

— Vladimir Nabokov

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

— Orson Scott Card

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past…

— Albert Bandura

“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“They are usually multi-talented, with dozens of ideas streaming across the “high-def” screen of their minds in a moving sort of neon, pulsating display…

— Jo Ann Brown-Scott

If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you…

— Bernard Arnault

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are free to…

— Criss Jami

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

— Tom Kelley

I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking.

— Chris Claremont