The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
– Mary Oliver
Tag: creative
Quotable 476
I think one must trust the writing process. Understand that creativity requires nonlinearity and unique associative combinations. Creative people do a lot of trial and error and rarely know where they are going exactly until they get there.
– Scott Barry Kaufman
Quotable 226
Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
– John Cleese
Quotable 201
The first step to being creative is to get rid of your own unwritten rules.
– Mary M. Byers
Quotable 180
Any creative pursuit is like solving an endless puzzle. You don’t know where to start because there are no edges. So, you start with the two things in front of you that fit together, and then build off of it.
– Frank Chimero
Quotable 126
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master.
– Charlotte Brontë
Quotable 23
The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
– Saul Steinberg
Quotable 2
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you’ll abort it if you do. Be patient and you’ll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.
– Robert A. Heinlein
Fiction: Substitute Muse
Acevedo checked Park’s office, just in case the man was ignoring his telephone. But no; he wasn’t there. Acevedo sighed and picked up the phone himself and made a call to building security.
“The atrium. Thank you.”
He shook his head as he walked down the hall to the elevator. He got out on the 70th floor and walked down another hall; it broadened into a large, open public space enclosed in glass. Various employees were taking their break there, looking out at the city or enjoying the numerous plants and trees that made the area a garden spot.
Acevedo quickly found Park; he was the only one not wearing correct business attire. Instead, he wore a black T-shirt with a wide red stripe across the chest, blue jeans, and yellow tennis shoes. He faced the center of the room and leaned back comfortably against the glass wall. Acevedo suppressed a shudder.