The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ~ Tom Clancy

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart... ~ William Wordsworth

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~ Rudyard Kipling

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~ Ray Bradbury

I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotion. ~ James Michener

I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it. ~ Susan Orlean

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you. ~ Maya Lin

The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. ~ Charles Dickens

Sometimes we become so entangled in the mundane facts of our lives that we forget about our creative nature until it starts nagging us with reminders of its needs or until we feel so fractured we know something is wrong. ~ Anne Hazard Aldrich

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. ~ William Blake

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar, and surprising. ~ Joseph Conrad

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. ~ Norman Podhoretz

Creativity means believing you have greatness. ~ Wayne W. Dyer

Being creative is like being in love! ~ Woody Flowers

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people. ~ Liz Phair

Why should we all use our creative power? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold, and compassionate,so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money. ~ Brenda Ueland

Creativity is a reflection of God, whether it's singing, writing a song, or designing the Golden Gate Bridge. To me, when the mind goes in motion, and reaches, and strives to bring something out of nothing, that's creativity. Obviously, to me, that reflects the nature of God. ~ Brett Beavers

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second-rate. ~ Agnes De Mille

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself. ~ Willa Cather

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~ Chinese Proverb

Fantasy is the only truth. ~ Abbie Hoffman

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. ~ Dr. Seuss

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Feed it good thoughts. ~ Zig Ziglar

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. ~ Maya Angelou