Top Creative Process Quotes
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...
Ken Kesey
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craft, creative process, dullness, familiarity, inventiveness, knowledge, limitations, writing
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...
Charlie Kaufman
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advice, artistic process, creative process, creativity, emotion, life, loss, meaning, memory, perception
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...
Mary Oliver
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morning, aide memoire, creative process, ideas, memory, notes, writing, thinking, wake up, think