The Creative Process Quotes

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use?

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]

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

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)

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

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.

[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.", Issue 64, Winter 1975)

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!", May 10, 1886)

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.", 6 March 2012]

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"

We all have 10, 000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.

Passion is a deep love for sacred activity.

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i

Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations

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.

Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.

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

Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!

We are all creative beings. The act of creating puts us in direct connection with the greatest creator. The master artist that is our Divine Creator.

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.

art is a mode of stalking

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

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

Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.

Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU ... you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world.

There’s no matter here you can’t re-matter into love.

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.

Desire is the impulse that sparks the flame.

The hardest situation is when the individuals desperate “to cut off your wings” are your closest family members whom you can’t escape dealing with.

Creativity can turn into an avalanche or a tempest, but can also flow like a meandering tributary to same destination

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

Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.

Creativity is an inherently human trait that allowed us to dominate our environment and make our way to the top of the food chain.

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

She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p

Life is beautiful dream.

To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.