Quotes about Creativity

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

You can make anything by writing.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.

The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the dream.

She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is

Women's creativity is called craft and is sold cheap; when men create, the result is called art and is costly, like Maurizio Cattelan's banana taped to a Miami art gallery wall with a price tag of US$120,000.