“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.”
Creativity is part of human nature. We are all creative, especially when we are young children, but as we grow older, they teach us to leave our childish imagination behind us and focus on logic and cognitive thinking.
Creativity is important for authors who write fiction. Pantser writers have their creative juices flowing as they write their story, but they are also more prone to writer’s block. Even the best authors will experience a lapse in their creativity.
I have put together a couple handfuls of quotes to help you reestablish your connection with the child who use to be you so many years ago.
27 Quotes to open the flow of your creative juices again.
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9: “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” ~Albert Einstein 23: “All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.”
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10: “The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
― Ernest Becker
11: “True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.” ― Arthur Rimbaud
12: “But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.” ― Madeleine L'Engle
13: “Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.”
― Keri Smith
14: “The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”
― Criss Jami
15: “Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
― Rita Mae Brown
16: “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”
― Rollo May
17: “I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.”
― J.K. Rowling
18: “A lack of illusion is golden, and it is quite possible that creativity is the highest form of intelligence. One might further develop oneself in the creative sense and, therefore, at times, find some degree of shame more so than pride when having always followed that of the safe and ever-praised academia.”
― Criss Jam
19: “We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.” ― Serina Hartwell
20: “I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.”
― Jonathan Harnisch
21: “Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.”
― Deb Caletti
22: “If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.”
― Hugh MacLeod
24: “Creative people, especially those who are just starting out, feel that they have to conform and be a mass-produced product in order to be noticed. The truth of the matter is that genuineness and unconventionality is often what helps make a mark on the world.”
― Veronika Carnaby
25: “Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.”
― Donald Miller
26: “The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.”
― Stephen King
27: “People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expectations of a story, and truly step into a different world of literature.”
― Lionel Suggs
I hope at least one of these quotes has inspired your creativity. Go ahead, be a child again, and use your imagination to write your story.
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