"Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don’t have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It’s not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn’t have done it that way"
Cormac McCarthy
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"It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious."
John Irving
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"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."
Leo Burnett
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"I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art."
Anaïs Nin
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"Creative people, like those with psychotic illnesses, tend to see the world differently to most. It’s like looking at a shattered mirror"
Mark Millard
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"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
Edward De Bono
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