“Over the years, I’ve found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to…”— Norman Mailer, amazon.com
“Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on.…”— Orson Scott Card, fictionfactor.com
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will w…”— Ernest Hemingway, medium.com
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”— Mark Twain, bloomberg.com
“I’ve never worked a day in my life. I’ve never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: ‘Am I being joyful?’ And if you’ve got a writer’s block, you can cure it this evening by stopp…”— Ray Bradbury, brainpickings.org
“I encourage my students at times like these to get one page of anything written, three hundred words of memories or dreams or stream of consciousness on how much they hate writing — just for the hell of it, just to keep their fingers from becoming too arthritic, just because they have made a commitm…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down and read it (printouts are best I find, but that’s just me) as if you’ve never seen it before. Start at the beginning. Scribble on the manuscript as you go if you see anything you want to change. And of…”— Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com
“The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, en.wikiquote.org
“Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, businessinsider.com
“We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. When we get home, home is still the same, but something in our minds has changed, and that changes everything”— Jonah Leher, theguardian.com
“Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic”— Audre Lorde, amazon.com
“That's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.”— Gene Wilder, newsweek.com
“We see the arm of a couch, you see a great prop for doggie style. We see a bra, you see a bondage tool. Being creative and looking for new ways to spice things up is crucial in a lover.”— Casey Gueren, womenshealthmag.com
“The next time you are trying to be creative in a meeting...lie down. If anyone accuses you of being lazy, quietly explain that you are employing your locus coeruleus in the war against rigid thinking.”— Richard Wiseman, amazon.com
“Since you have all this time and energy, and nobody to share it with, you tend to look for the answers in the comforts of your own home. You spot a pen, and oh good lord a paper. And bam, you’ve found yourself a hobby.”— Alex Shwayze, thoughtcatalog.com
“We had to be creative growing up. Without siblings around, we were forced to entertain ourselves. Whether it was through drawing, writing, or building something epic with Legos, our minds were always turning as kids, and it hasn’t stopped now that we’re older.”— Jay Miletsky, puckermob.com
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or th…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com