Caroline Ghosn Quotes

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

I don't believe in writer's block.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!