![For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.](/assets/img/quote-photos/for-some-reason-theres-this-myth-that-creativity-especially-in-terms-of-crea.jpg)
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Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing space people
I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven. Rob Thurman
writing scripts mainstream
[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see. Rob Zombie
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing suffering littles
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer... Richard Baxter
writing emotional rocks
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Rex Reed
writing race justice
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. Rebecca West
writing fiction half
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
creativity happen helped town
I think it helped my creativity to be in a town that didn't have that influence. It helped the productivity to be in a place where there wasn't much structure. You had to make it happen for yourself. Ben Romans
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In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income. Muhammad Yunus
creativity hard-times convince-us
It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music that kills young people. We accept that some people don't like heavy metal, but we can't let them convince us that it's negative and destructive. Heavy metal is a friend that gives people great pleasure and enjoyment and helps them through hard times. “Whether there's any 'subliminal effect' from the court, I don't know, but we certainly couldn't let it interfere with our creativity. Rob Halford
creativity way chaos
The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy. Richard Holbrooke
creativity space procedures
Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity. Richard Dawkins
creativity thinking air
What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process. Ronnie Dunn
creativity small-changes bigs
Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things. Roger Enrico
creativity capitalist
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian. Umberto Eco
creativity people genius
Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent. Truman Capote
people social sports student
I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with. Andrew Shue
people ryan telling
Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere. Don Miller
people seeing touches watching
Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,
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I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek. MC Hammer
people worked
I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it. Stephen Graham
people
He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.
people work
I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me. Graham Elliot
people
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. Gale Norton
people truth
I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right? Gary Sheffield