Creative thinking begins by embracing your naiveté and rejecting the obvious in favor of the unusual, the extraordinary, the evocative and or the new.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

If you seek creative ideas go walking.Angels whisper to a man when he goes fora walk.

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

For every dilemma, find at least three or four possible solutions. The creative process leads to better results.

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

“To me, being creative is a very fragile thing, and somehow I've always felt the need to be very protective of that.”

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.