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Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.


Criss Jami


#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions." (Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)


Anton Chekhov


#creative-process #state-of-mind #writing #writing-process

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!


Neil Gaiman


#confluence #creative-process #ideas #writing #writing-process

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#craft #craftsmanship #creative-process #crudeness #culture

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.


Susan Sontag


#boredom #controlled #creative #creative man #directed

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.


Lester Bangs


#artistic #basically #come #creative #decent

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.


Joseph Barbera


#creative #friends #good #made #necessarily

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.


Mikhail Baryshnikov


#artists #colossal #creative #extraordinary #great

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.


Jacques Barzun


#creative #fresh #only #original #shadows

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.


Ann Beattie


#creative #did #distance #door #find






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