Creativity Quotes

“You've got to dance like there's nobody watching.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me: Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?”

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”