Quotes about Creativity

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.

Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

You have been endowed with the power to use the most highly organized form of energy known to man, that of thought.

Man's only limitation, within reason, lies in his development and use of his imagination.

We who are in this race for riches, should be encouraged to know that this changed world in which we live is demanding new ideas, new ways of doing things, new leaders, new inventions, new methods of teaching, new methods of marketing, new books, new literature, new features for the radio, new ideas for moving pictures.

Sex transmutation is simple and easily explained. It means the switching of the mind from thoughts of physical expression, to thoughts of some other nature.

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man. The impulse, the DESIRE, is given shape, form, and ACTION through the aid of the imaginative faculty of the mind. It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

Dean's eyes were studying me. You have a way with words. What kind of writing do you want to do? Articles for Dad's paper, to start. What do you want to write about? I paused, suddenly uncertain about how much to share. Dean's eyes were reassuring. When I know more, I'd like to write about deeper things.