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Quotes about Creativity

It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower.
— Paul Graham
if the hacker is a creator, we have to take inspiration into account.
— Paul Graham
I suspect few housing projects in the US were designed by architects who expected to live in them. You see the same thing in programming languages. C, Lisp, and Smalltalk were created for their own designers to use. Cobol, Ada, and Javawere created for other people to use. If you think you're designing something for idiots, odds are you're not designing something good, even for idiots.
— Paul Graham
Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.
— Paulo Coelho
I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.
— Paulo Coelho
Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.
— Paulo Coelho
When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.
— Paulo Coelho
I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.
— Paulo Coelho
Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.
— Paulo Coelho
Dreamers can never be tamed.
— Paulo Coelho
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
— Paulo Coelho
Worse than the composers' suffering, though, was the fact that the girl was playing the music with such soul because she knew she was going to die. And am not going to die? Where is my soul that I might play the music of my own life with such enthusiasm?
— Paulo Coelho