Creativity And Writing Quotes by William Wordsworth, Ray Bradbury, Oscar Wilde, Leo Burnett, A. A. Milne, Mark Twain and many others.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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.
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.
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.
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.
Writers are always selling somebody out.
Fiction is about stuff that’s screwed up.
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
