Winifred Holtby Quotes

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.

There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.

We continue to think of new things in old ways.

When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really want to find out what is going on-I'm writing for myself as a reader. It's like when you dream a dream. I want to know what's behind the door. If I navigate, it's from a place that's totally intuitive.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

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

Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.

I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES.