creativity
“Genius can breathe freely only in an atmosphere of freedom.”
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
“By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.”
“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
“Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage.”
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
“Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.”
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible.”
“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
“Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.”
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
“The desire to write grows with writing.”
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
“There is a way to do it better—find it.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”