#Creativity

"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action."

"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."

"The last time somebody pointed out that cowboys ride horses, not tricycles, I shot him. Of course, I waited until another gunslinger gunned him down, but nevertheless, I still shot him."

"Don't try to follow trends. Create them."

"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."

"That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire."

"A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process."

"Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M"is silent."

"All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate."

"Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."

"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."

"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."

"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

"The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . ."

"Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time."

"...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative."

"An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours."

"And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!"

"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."