Creativity Quotes

"It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse" "The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say 'I read, therefore it writes'" "Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture" "Express yourself, don't repress yourself." "The best ideas come from examining problems that are interesting to you." "All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate." "Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities" "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen" "The power of a writer is that he is a powerful figure in the world" "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure" "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out" "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things" "Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down" "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels."