A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Interpretation
A hunch symbolizes the instinctive insights of creativity urging you to take action or notice something important.
This quote emphasizes the role of intuition in the creative process. A 'hunch' is often seen as an inner prompt or a gut feeling that can lead to innovative thoughts or actions. It suggests that creativity communicates with us through these subtle nudges, urging us to recognize and follow our instincts.
In practice
In a creative writing workshop, to encourage participants to trust their instincts.
Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is a child of God, equal heir to all the bounties of God; and that goodness is riches, kindness is power, and freedom is glory. Above all, every man is born with an inner capacity to take him as far as his imagination can dream or envision-providing he is free to dream and envision.
If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.
In these days of wars and rumors of wars - haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.
My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.
I guess my comfort zone as a writer is diametrically opposed to my comfort zone as a human being.
While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex and highly individual, yet there are common recognizable denominators to the creative recovery process.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.