The Creativity Scrapbook

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

"Creativity is so much more than making something. Creativity is how we interact with each other… it's like trying to insist that you're alive." —Mike White

Please, God, leave us this one mystery, unsolved: why man creates.

In the school environment, creativity can be considered pathological behavior as opposed to the compliant traits of being reliable, sincere, good-natured, responsible, tolerant, and peaceable — the qualities associated with the lowest levels of creativity.

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them–in order that the reader may see what they are made of. —Kurt Vonnegut

Listen without defending and speak without offending.

Presuming that there is such a thing as ‘progress’ when it comes to music, and that music is ‘better’ now than it used to be, is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn’t ‘improve.’