Quotes about Creativity

In the early stage, managers are puzzle solvers, not number crunchers.

Put simply, innovative thinkers connect fields, problems, or ideas that others find unrelated.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

My head is a hive of words that won't settle.