Creativity Quotes

"The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world" "A novel which does not give the utmost satisfaction to its author is an immoral novel" "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind." "Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person." "The fun of writing lies in the creation, not in the recognition." "I'm just a kid in his bedroom having fun, avoiding homework and pretending I'm the greatest actor in the world." "The first draft of anything is shit" "A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book" "Think off-center" "Writing saves me from the sin and inconvenience of violence." "Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory." "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." "We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary." "Music is well said to be the speech of angels" "A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life " "The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person using them." "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation." "With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion" "I always dream about a pen that would be a syringe" "If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something"