“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”— Julio Cortazar, amazon.com
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken…”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.”— Jonah Lehrer, scienceblogs.com
“I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, you…”— William Goldman, amazon.com
“Nothing is more creative nor destructive than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”— Dan Brown, amazon.com
“I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world…”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“We create as a means to become complete, yet creativity is infinite.”— Noah A. Nemley (via LEGENDMEDIA), quotemadness.com