Best Creativity And Writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”

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Book:Conversations with Robert Graves

Source: Conversations with Robert Graves

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”

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Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”

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Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

Source: A Gift of Wings

“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.”

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Book:Growing up

Source: Growing up

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

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Book:Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

Source: Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

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Book:Not That it Matters

Source: Not That it Matters

“If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”

“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”

“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”

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Book:Picasso

Source: Picasso

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.”

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Author:Leo Rosten

“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

Source: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters

“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.”

“You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.”

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

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Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

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Author:Herman Melville

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”

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Author:Sidney Sheldon

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”

“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”

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Author:Gustave Flaubert

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.”

“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.”

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”

Book:Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none”

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Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”

“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.”

Source: Faulkner at West Point

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.”

“Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.”

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Book:The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.”

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Book:Truman Capote: Conversations

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations

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