An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
Irving StoneTags: art inspiration creativity ideas creative-process artist
The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
Katherine MansfieldTags: creativity creative-process writing-process
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."
(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)
Tags: thinking writing thought creative-process clarity precision
When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.
Justina ChenTags: art inspiration creativity creative-process
The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.
Patti SmithTags: creative-process
- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!?
- You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!
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10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don’t want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don’t.
Write every day.
Keep writing.
Tags: writing creative-process writing-advice writing-process
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Tags: honesty writing integrity on-writing creative-process self-expression expectations selling-out pandering
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.
Red HaircrowTags: individuality life reality writing writers creativity creative-process life-lessons writers-on-writing writing-process writing-from-the-heart creative-writing creative-thinking
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit."
[Ten rules for writing fiction (part two), The Guardian, 20 February 2010]
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