Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.

My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.

If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

The only thing I know for sure about the creative process is it always comes back. Magically. When there are no creative juices and nothing is coming to me - if I wait - it comes!

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.