Quotes about Creativity

Now, Jesus himself was and is a joyous, creative person. He does not allow us to continue thinking of our Father who fills and overflows space as a morose and miserable monarch, a frustrated and petty parent, or a policeman on the prowl.

Unlike egotism, the drive to significance is a simple extension of the creative impulse of God that gave us being. It is not filtered through self-consciousness any more than is our lunge to catch a package falling from someone's hand. It is outwardly directed to the good to be done. We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

A well-made sentence, I think, is a thing of beauty.

To be creative is only to have health: to keep oneself fully alive in the Creation, to keep the Creation fully alive in oneself, to see the Creation anew, to welcome one's part in it anew.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.