“When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” ~ Pablo Picasso
creativity
Writers’ Wisdom: The Source of Inspiration
Please get out of the habit of saying that you’ve got an idea for a short story. Art does not come from ideas. Art does not come from the mind. Art comes from the place where you dream. Art comes from your unconscious; it comes from the white-hot center of you. ~ Robert Olen Butler
Today’s Reflection: Your Gift
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”—Robert Bresson
Today’s Reflection: Keeping it Simple
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. ~ Charles Mingus
Writer’s Wisdom ~ George Orwell’s 1st of 4 Questions to Guide Writing
What am I trying to say? ~ George Orwell
Today’s Reflection ~ Happiness
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation. ~ Albert Camus
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Joy of Writing
“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”
Source
― P. G. Wodehouse
Today’s Reflection ~ Confidence
One day a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of. ~ J. D. Salinger
