“What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.”— Torkom Saraydarian, amazon.com
“They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?”— Hugh MacLeod, amazon.com
“What is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!”— David Almond, amazon.com
“Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.”— Keri Smith, amazon.com
“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 Chen, amazon.com
“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like…”— Hugh MacLeod, amazon.com
“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“The reality is even things that you love, that you’re hungry for and passionate about, will occasionally be things you don’t want to do.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I've earned $47 in 20 years of writing and I think that $2 a year (omitting stamps, paper, envelopes, ribbons, divorces, and a typewriter) entitles one to the special privacy of a special insanity and if I need hold hands with paper gods to promote a little scurvy rhyme, I'll take the encyst and par…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“New York has closed itself off to the young and struggling… New York City has been taken away from you … So my advice is: Find a new city.”— Patti Smith, amazon.com
“Symmetry, Instagram, Kardashians – it's over! Money is over. Rich people need to get weird again, like Diana Vreeland used to be. Like, why don't you quilt yourself a coat of white monkey fur and meander around your apartment?”— Cat Marnell, rollingstone.com