Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

~ Pawan Mishra

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The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle. The creative urge lives and grows in him like a tree in the earth from which it draws its nourishment.

~ C.g. Jung

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The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, and in elaborating and shaping this image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present, and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life. Therein lies the social significance of art: it is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is most lacking.

~ C.g. Jung

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We are all creative beings. The act of creating puts us in direct connection with the greatest creator. The master artist that is our Divine Creator.

~ Eileen Anglin

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You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it.

~ El Greco

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Like most artists, everything I produced was connected to who I was - and so I suffered according to how my work was received. The idea that anyone might be able to detach their personal value from their public output was revolutionary.

~ Jessie Burton

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We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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art is a mode of stalking

~ Ron Silliman

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Creating art is paradoxical because an artist seeks to express truth by penetrating and destroying illusions. Art is always the outpouring of a mind striving to achieve the impossible reconciliation of all the fragmented shards that make people human: frivolous amusements, idle moments, feelings of tenderness and pain, stored memories, future expectations, and unquenchable thirst to experience love and witness beauty.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

~ Erol Ozan

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That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

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A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

~ Pawan Mishra

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The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

~ Pawan Mishra

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A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

~ Pawan Mishra

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If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

~ Pawan Mishra

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As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

~ Pawan Mishra

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If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

~ Pawan Mishra

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If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

~ Pawan Mishra

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Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button.

~ Germany Kent

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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of human

~ Anton Chekhov

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We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. Here again we come up against what I have called the “intolerable compliment.” Over a sketch made idly to amuse a child, an artist may not take much trouble: he may be content to let it go even though it is not exactly as he meant it to be. But over the great picture of his life—the work which he loves, though in a different fashion, as intensely as a man loves a woman or a mother a child—he will take endless trouble—and would doubtless, thereby give endless trouble to the picture if it were sentient. One can imagine a sentient picture, after being rubbed and scraped and re-commenced for the tenth time, wishing that it were only a thumb-nail sketch whose making was over in a minute. In the same way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

~ C.s. Lewis

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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 tha

~ Cormac Mccarthy

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A creative mind is a spark of divinity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it was like to be members of Prince's band. They'd sit down, and Prince would tell them what he wanted them to play, and they'd explain that they couldn't--they weren't quick enough, or good enough. And Prince would push them and push them until they mastered it, and then just when they were feeling pleased with themselves for accomplishing something they didn't know they had the capacity for, he'd tell them the dance steps he needed to accompany the music.This story has stuck with me, I think, because it seems like an encapsulation of the very best and most exciting kind of creative process.

~ Nick Hornby

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Step into the center of the center of the center - right into your Now - and see: how elegant and honest this moment is. Just being yourself, a world to hold your feet, a universe to lift your gaze, a heart beating - constant, in the center of it all.

~ Laurie Perez

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Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.

~ Jennifer Allwood

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Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU ... you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world.

~ Jennifer Allwood

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A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others, and to come to deep insights. If you don’t find this amazing you have lost your sense of wonder. Which, by the way, is something a high can bring back, too.

~ Sebastian Marincolo

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For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not know, and because we do not know it, than what we know.

~ Paul Valéry

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There’s no matter here you can’t re-matter into love.

~ Laurie Perez

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The message of love or beauty or hope needs to be said by a hundred thousand different voices, written by a hundred thousand different pens, at a hundred thousand different times in history, different places in the world, different sectors of society, in different genres and registers, simply to be heard by the billions of ears and hearts that lie waiting for a truth which fires their soul, answers their question, speaks to their heart.

~ Lucy H. Pearce

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When we have the courage to claim space for ourselves. When we risk creativity. When we relish our sensuality. When we honor our lives and their experiences as valuable. When we create from a female body, expressing ourselves in a woman’s voice, using a woman’s language. We begin to bloom.

~ Lucy H. Pearce

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