Creativity Quotes

"All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate." "Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities" "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen" "The power of a writer is that he is a powerful figure in the world" "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure" "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out" "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things" "Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down" "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels." "The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure." "This world is but a canvas to our imagination" "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live" "The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink" "Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity" "I have no ambitions nor desires. To be poet is not my ambition, it's my way of being alone." "To read is to dream with open eyes." "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet" "To have great poets, there must be great audiences." "Do anything, but let it produce joy."