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“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.”

Writing Realizing Loses Creative Pure Evidence Sociology Eden Sociological

Author:Nadine Gordimer

“I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.”

Writing Process Loses Practice Creative Doors Keys Habit Structure Insight Instance Consistent Writing Process Invitations Daily Habits

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.”

Want Wells Mean Fun Process Loses Creative Adventure Creative Process

Book:Moonlight & Vines

Source: Moonlight & Vines

“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.”

“When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge.”

People Spirit Loses Creative Please Paint Edges Free Spirit

Author:Ted Martinez

“Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.”

Source: What's A Ghoul to Do?: A Ghost Hunter Mystery

“Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!”

Men Humans Heart Running Energy Loses Emotion Creative Risk Dangerous Sensations Human Heart Taboo Creative Power

Author:Phyllis Bottome

“In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.”

People Seems Loses Imagination Creative Logic Murder Urges Rome Submit Zest

Book:Of Diamonds and Diplomats

Source: Of Diamonds and Diplomats

“We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.”

Needs Loses Space Creative Window Track Outlets Creative Outlets

Author:Zoketsu Norman Fischer

“One of the good things is the relationship between director and editor used to be more contentious. Studios used to leave directors alone more during the post production process and now they're clamoring to get in. So, the director and the editor end up teaming up sort of against the studio to fight what they're doing and you lose the creative tension that you used to have between an editor and a director.”

Ends Used Fighting Process Loses Creative Directors Good Things Productions Studios Used To Be Posts Tension Editors Contentious Post Production Creative Tension Teaming Up

Author:Michael Sucsy

“Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.”

Culture Social Loses Natural Creative Movement Healthy Unity Rounds Myth Horizon Social Movements

Book:The Birth of Tragedy

Source: The Birth of Tragedy

“The model we established was to give creative people complete creative freedom in exchange for betting on themselves, so they work for the minimums you're allowed to work for, and if the movies work in a big way, everyone does very well. If the movies don't, nobody loses too much money. The benefit to doing all the movies low budget is we can tell different types of stories and take creative risks. The Purge would have been irresponsible to do for $20M, but to do it for $3M makes sense.”

“The concern about what's too violent or what's too scary is something that I just completely don't let enter into my creative process. I feel like, if I spend a lot of time trying to worry about whether it will appeal to everyone and who will like it and who won't, and I try to please everyone, I'll just spread myself too thin and lose my mind.”

Ifs Feels Trying Mind Process Loses Worry Creative Please Concern Scary Spread Violent Appeals Creative Process

Author:Alex Hirsch

“It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.”

Needs Trying Different Loses Challenges Creative Stamina New Challenges

Author:Alexandre Aja