Meg Wolitzer Quotes

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.

All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.