{"quotes":[{"text":"Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use?","author":"Stephen Fry","tags":["creative-process","literary-technique","writing-process"],"id":91,"author_id":"Stephen+Fry"},{"text":"Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["aspiring-writers","books","creative-people","creative-process","creative-writing","creativity","fiction","fundamentals-of-creative-writing","fundamentals-of-writing","literature","on-writing","power-of-words","on-writing","reading","short-story","stories","story-writing","storytelling","tips-on-writing","write","writers","writing","writing-advice","writing-craft","writing-fiction","writing-from-the-heart","writing-ideas","writing-style"],"id":549,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"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., Nov. 20, 2009].","author":"Cormac McCarthy","tags":["hip","creation","creative-process","driving-forces","hardship","pain","writing"],"id":2178,"author_id":"Cormac+McCarthy"},{"text":"It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["creative-process","dreamer","dreamy","poetry","poetry-love","poetry","poets","poets-and-poetry","real-world","soul","writers","writing-life","writing-process"],"id":3644,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.","author":"Walt Stanchfield","tags":["creative-process","drawing","inspiration"],"id":4369,"author_id":"Walt+Stanchfield"},{"text":"Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.From the book: stuff I think about.","author":"Sondra Faye","tags":["art","creative-process","creativity","masterpiece","masterpieces","odds","reality","sondra-faye","statistics"],"id":5783,"author_id":"Sondra+Faye"},{"text":"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.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["aspiring-writers","books","creative-people","creative-process","creative-writing","creativity","fiction","fundamentals-of-creative-writing","fundamentals-of-writing","literature","on-writing","power-of-words","on-writing","reading","short-story","stories","story-writing","storytelling","tips-on-writing","write","writers","writing","writing-advice","writing-craft","writing-fiction","writing-from-the-heart","writing-style"],"id":6876,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"The very first thing I remember in my early childhood is a flame, a blue flame jumping off a gas stove somebody lit... I remember being shocked by the whoosh of the blue flame jumping off the burner, the suddenness of it... I saw that flame and felt that hotness of it close to my face. I felt fear, real fear, for the first time in my life. But I remember it also like some kind of adventure, some kind of weird joy, too. I guess that experience took me someplace in my head I hadn't been before... The fear I had was almost like an invitation, a challenge to go forward into something I knew nothing about. That's where I think my personal philosophy of life and my commitment to everything I believe in started... In my mind I have always believed and thought since then that my motion had to be forward, away from the heat of that flame.","author":"Miles Davis","tags":["art","artist","creative-process","jazz"],"id":8170,"author_id":"Miles+Davis"},{"text":"I’ve learned that the creative life may or may not be the apex of human civilization, but either way it’s not what I thought it was. It doesn’t make you special and sparkly. You don’t have to walk alone. You can work in an office — I’ve worked in offices for the past 15 years and written five novels while doing it. The creative life is forgiving: You can betray it all you want, again and again, and no matter how many times you do, it will always take you back.","author":"Lev Grossman","tags":["creative-process","creativity","writing","writing-advice","writing-craft"],"id":8390,"author_id":"Lev+Grossman"},{"text":"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.","author":"El Greco","tags":["art","creative-process","el-greco"],"id":8988,"author_id":"El+Greco"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":254,"pages":26,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}