Top Creative Process Quotes

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flo...

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

I write to believe in goodness.

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ev...

Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.

You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it.

[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that t...

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

Sometimes, to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors...

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this cr...

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.", 1964)

I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. No one reads for fun, or to be subve...

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always...

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of m