I recently had a conversation with a friend who was upset by the snobbery she read about between creatives, specifically literary writers versus romance writers. (If it comes to fisticuffs, I’ll put my money on romance writers any day.) Setting…
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Looking at Creativity the Write Way
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Writing is…Magic
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. ~ Stephen King
Reading and Creating
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And,…
Tagged with: creativity, importance of reading, power of words, reading quote, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Creativity: Crushing and Glorious
Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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Creativity’s Enemy
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath
When the Magic Comes…
We…don’t know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is to write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don’t…
Tagged with: creativity, encouragement to write, imagination, importance of reading, Madeleine L’Engle, motivation to write, power of words, words change the world, writing quotes
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Hold On to Your Inner Child
Tagged with: creative adults, creativity, creativity quotes, journeys, the inner child, Ursula K. Le Guin
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KL Wagoner 