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- Nov 07, 2020
Creative Life Quotes
On keeping imagination alive across a lifetime.
A creative life rarely moves in a straight line, and these quotes trace that winding path, from early ambition to lasting creative purpose.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The momentum of my creative life and intellectual growth is still the momentum of breaking out of fundamentalism. Because of that, I'm very grateful for it. But I'm also grateful that at the center of it was something that I still believe to be true - those fundamentals of faith.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your creative life can continue to just turn inside out and evolve in ways that you can't possibly imagine, whether or not you decide to be a parent. It doesn't matter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.
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- Nov 07, 2020