#Quotes About Creativity, The Arts, And #Writing

“Every one of us is chosen to be a creator by virtue of being human. If you’re not convinced of this, just step into any preschool and observe the unbridled creative energy of kids as they immerse themselves in fingerpainting, telling wild stories, banging on drums, and dancing just to dance. They’re creative types because they breathe.”

~Grant Faulkner

 

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“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”

~Ursula K.         Le Guin

  

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"Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it, that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, writer – I am a person who does things. I write, I act, and I never know what I am going to do next. Think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun."

~Stephen Fry'

  

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“Get the writing done first, then be the person I want to be in other ways after that.”
~John Edgar Wideman

  

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“Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.”
~Ann Patchett