Clever Quote by Winston Graham

There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking,…

— Lou Doillon

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose…

— Kurt Cobain

I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything…

— Junot Diaz

I don't use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it's never…

— Russell Simmons

It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50,…

— James Dickey

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

— David Beckham

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of…

— John Hodgman

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can…

— John Steinbeck

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything…

— Jennifer Egan

“Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.” To make great ideas a reality, we must act, experiment, fail, adapt, and learn on…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my…

— George Meyer

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

— Pearl Zhu