Quotes about Creativity
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
- Thomas Merton
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
- Ernest Hemingway
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
- Ernest Hemingway
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
- Ernest Hemingway
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
- Paulo Coelho
Basically when you're a writer and have a mind like mine, my mind has gone platinum multiple times, and I have got a heart of gold; my heart's in the right place.
- Enzo Amore
So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer.
- Zoya Akhtar
I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.
- Beverly Lewis
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.
- Alice Walker
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
- Ed Koch
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
- John Updike
I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you.
- Lauren Daigle