creativity
“Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born.”
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”
“The desire to write grows with writing.”
“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
“Exuberance is better than taste.”
“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.”
“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it.”
“Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think is creation’s.”
“Kill your darlings.”
“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.”
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
“Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.”
“My stories run up and bite me in the leg — I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite.”
“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”
“Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”