Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and ….

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two..

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come..

Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time..

Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful..

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty..

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life..

...writing is not a performance but a generosity..

Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are going to throw ….

... the spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come..

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering..

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The tru….

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands..

Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indi….

All children have creative power..

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imagin….

I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism,….

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you..

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies w….

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing..

When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. ….