Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

Fire is a good companion for the mind.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.

I go to my office nearly every day, and I'll sit there for six or seven hours and come up with ideas, and that's the only way I can justify turning up on stage.

I don't know what idea is going to hit me when.

I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I'll just keep notes in my phone. It might just be one or two words, and then that could inspire a whole song, lyrically.

Oftentimes, when I'm trying to get inspired, I'll find myself just staring at the wall and let the fans inspire me to get creative.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.

It is amazing how many thoughts can race through your head in a minute.

When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can't just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed - which is why it's great to have voice recorders on your phone!

If I'm walking along the street, ideas come. Ideas about things that I'm interested in. I've jotted them down in the past on bits of paper and then, more recently, on apps in my phone. I've always written poetry since I was a kid.

I have got a good imagination.

As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.