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  • #1
    Eudora Welty
    “It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...”
    Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

  • #2
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #3
    Austin Kleon
    “Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”
    Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

  • #4
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #5
    Louis Pasteur
    “Chance favors the prepared mind.”
    Louis Pasteur

  • #6
    Steven Pressfield
    “Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
    Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

  • #7
    Criss Jami
    “A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #8
    Roman Payne
    “The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.”
    Roman Payne

  • #9
    Gilda Radner
    “I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.”
    Gilda Radner

  • #10
    Arthur Machen
    “I dream in fire but work in clay.”
    Arthur Machen

  • #11
    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “Critique by creating.”
    Michelangelo Buonarroti

  • #12
    Katerina Stoykova Klemer
    “Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.”
    Katerina Stoykova Klemer

  • #13
    Criss Jami
    “The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #14
    Alan             Moore
    “To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.”
    Alan Moore

  • #15
    William Faulkner
    “The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.”
    William Faulkner

  • #16
    Serina Hartwell
    “We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.”
    Serina Hartwell

  • #17
    Sanober  Khan
    “I write because there are things in me that cannot die.”
    Sanober Khan

  • #18
    “Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.”
    Jyrki Vainonen

  • #19
    Leonard Bernstein
    “I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.”
    Leonard Bernstein

  • #20
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #21
    Steve Jobs
    “There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.”
    Steve Jobs



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