Top Creative Process Quotes

Photographers don't take pictures. They create images.

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, The Cookiepants Hy...

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about t...

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise...

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Creativity is a magic wand that works two ways. When you set it in action and seek to create something, it does not just brings into existence that object or work, it also raises in your heart a dream...

Storytelling is inherently dangerous. Consider a traumatic event in your life. Think about how you experienced it. Now think about how you told it to someone a year later. Now think about how you told...

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.from the book: stuff i think about

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I...

When dreams come true creativity becomes art.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.