“I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.” ThinkingFeelsStoriesBodyReadingNextMy OwnStepsReaderCreatingDefinedNext Steps Author:Stephenie Meyer
“Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.” DreamLife IsOpportunityCreatingDefinedBliss Author:Janine Shepherd
“... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.” FeelsDoeMomentsUseJoyArtistPleasureEmotionConsciousnessCreativityCreativeAnxietyCreatingScientistSatisfactionMoodDefinedContrastGratificationAccompany Book:The Courage to Create Source: The Courage to Create
“Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.” MenWellsHas BeensReasonWholeAbleLiteratureRoomsExistenceAcceptingPaintingCreatingPainterIdeologyDefinedVarietyDeniedDominantVirginiaWoolf Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is suddenly very clear: Richard is not fallin in love with me and I'm not falling in love with Richard. We are not creating anything permanent or special. We are only having fun together. It is a fling- a fling just like he said last night- a fling with an ending yet to be determined. I feel relieved to have it defined” ThinkingFeelsSaidTogetherLastsNightFallFunClearSpecialCreatingFalling In LoveDeterminedDefinedPermanentHaving FunLast NightRelievedFlingNot Falling In Love Author:Emily Giffin
“The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.” IfsWritingCoursesProcessNovelPathJourneyCreatingTrainTrackTalesBoatDefinedNarrativeDestinationDiscoveringHighwaysDistractedTrain Tracks Book:This Year You Write Your Novel Source: This Year You Write Your Novel