Quotes about Creative process

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Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Red Haircrow
My life will be the best illustration of all my work. — Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to r — Wallace Stegner, On Teaching and Writing Fiction
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., — Cormac McCarthy
i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you. — Sanober Khan
Patriarchy doesn't get yet that 'hope' is a powerful force that drives creativity. Otherwise words like 'false' and 'hop — Deirdre Morris, WHICH FERTILITY FORUM? 3 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST FORUM FOR YOUR PREGNANCY SUCCESS
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. — Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal, Pensées
ld heads forgetful of their sins,Old, learned, respectable bald headsEdit and annotate the linesThat young men, tossing — W.B. Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make e — John Green
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which — Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff — Colette
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rat — Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritate — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim fo — Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will he — Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers sk — Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because — Junot Díaz