"My little notebooks were beginnings - they..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.
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“Long and long has the grass been growing,Long and long has the rain been falling,Long has the globe been rolling round.”
“I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.”
“O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.”
More on Creativity
“How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?”
“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
“One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.”
More on Process
“Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.”
“Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.”
“Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.”