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I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head.
— Neil Gaiman
My life will be the best illustration of all my work.
— Hans Christian Andersen
Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
— Don Roff
Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.
— Jacqueline Patricks
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.
— Ashim Shanker
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.
— Red Haircrow
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
— Stephen L. Carter
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.
— Frank Iero
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
— Elmore Leonard
Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) — Anton Chekhov
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) — Anton Chekhov
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Passion is a deep love for sacred activity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.
— Alan Watt
Art is the overflow of emotion into action.
— Brian Raif
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
— Truman Capote
Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.
— Janey Colbourne
For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.
— Terence Blacker
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
— Graham Greene
To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.
— DiAnn Mills
I think the hardest thing about writing is writing.
[Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, Feb. 24, 2013] — Nora Ephron
[Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, Feb. 24, 2013] — Nora Ephron
My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I'm sitting in front of a typewriter.
— Gary Reilly
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
poetry. i am not writing it.
(make way for me please)
it is my skin. dripping with light. — Sanober Khan
(make way for me please)
it is my skin. dripping with light. — Sanober Khan
I write to believe in goodness.
— Red Haircrow
Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.
— Shaun Hick
When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.
— Stephen King
It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
— Ted Dekker
The movement
Of the body is
Where poetry
Begins — Clint Catalyst
Of the body is
Where poetry
Begins — Clint Catalyst
The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.
— Julia Cameron
My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.
— Judith Hill
She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
— Carla H. Krueger
Pain engraves a deeper memory.
— Anne Sexton
The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.
— Stewart Stafford
i write
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan
Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.
— Joanna Penn
fiction writing can be a blast when you set aside debilitating notions of perfection and just dive headlong into the creative process.
— Chris Baty
Your experiences are the foundation for your story; your imagination takes it from there.
— J.R. Young
Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
— Catie Curtis
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
— Robert McKee
Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.
— Jenna Alatari
Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart
— Lisa Fantino
Forget ideas, Mr. Author.
What kind of pen do you use? — Stephen Fry
What kind of pen do you use? — Stephen Fry