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Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach — how you look at things. Not everybody can be a painter — and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be difficult to live. And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no need. But

“It is simply a fact that most of the time you can’t find the right words till you know exactly what you are saying, but that you can’t know exactly what you are saying till you find just the right words. The consequence is that you must start by writing the wrong meanings in the wrong words” - Peter Elbow, Writing Without Teachers

“Practice like it means everything in the world to you. Perform like you don't give a damn."

— Jascha Heifetz

Anne Carson: I think the only thing I know about writing is: start in the middle. Wherever you're doing, start in the middle. Starting at the beginning is just ridiculously frightening. And of course, the end, you know, will be there when you arrive.

Robert Currie: You know, I was going to say, and this is inside information, I don't think you have