“Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.”
― Arlaina Tibensky
Haha, so true!
Tag Archives: writers life
Quote of the day; Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth
Quote of the day; The more that you read . . .
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
― Dr. Seuss
Quote of the day; . . . in silence.
“Some build their castles ‘mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich
Quote of the day; Writing starts with living.
“Writing starts with living.”
― L.L. Barkat
Quote of the day; I before E except after C. Weird?
“I before E except after C. Weird?
By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.
I think all artists are weird.”
― Day Parker
Creativity . . . . .
Quote of the day; Make good art . . .
“Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.”
― Neil Gaiman
Quote of the day; . . . find your own shtick.
“You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else’s voice but your own.”
― Hugh MacLeod
Quote of the day; . . . you alone create the world of your experience . . .
“The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.”
― Eric Micha’el Leventhal
Quote of the day; – that’s creativity.
“If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.”
― Alan Alda
Quote of the day; . . .mutually distinct realities. . .
“Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.”
― Max Ernst
Quote of the day; When times are tough. . .
“when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.”
― Kelley Armstrong
Quote of the day; The best advice. . .
“The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best—write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career:”
― Austin Kleon
Quote of the day; Misunderstood. . .
“Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored — the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.”
― Austin Kleon
Quote of the day; Vibrating out of order. . .
“A good way to rid one’s self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.”
― William Morris
Quote of the day; Creative opportunity. . .
“Instead of asking “what’s the problem?” ask “what’s the creative opportunity?”
― Deepak Chopra
Quote of the day; Heroes. . .
“You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”
― Austin Kleon
Quote of the day; Living art. . .
“Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal.”
― Henry Miller
Quote of the day; Creative writer. . .
“The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.”
― Sigmund Freud
Quote of the day; Creative impulse. . .
“When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.”
― Justina Chen
