Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. Rob Brezsny
When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create. Why The Lucky Stiff
After all these years, I have come to realise that I must go through a period of agony and torture before I have a breakthrough. Hans Zimmer
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. Robert A. Heinlein
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. Will Self
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. Allen Ginsberg
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. James Joyce
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper. Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write. William Makepeace Thackeray
