“The cure for writer’s cramp is writer’s block.”

Inigo DeLeon

“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star”

Nietzsche

The eternal creative paradox? 

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

A. A. Milne

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

George Bernard Shaw

“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”

Linus Pauling

But remember you need to capture those ideas. Always make sure you have pen and paper, or another capture device handy. With reference to the above quote, pen and paper is proabably the best. The concept is to get as many ideas out as quickly as possible, then review them later. Amongst all you have captured there may well be the gem.

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”

Henry David Thoreau

I once had a dream. I remember the dream felt like a movie blockbuster. There was action, suspence and a fantastic story. I remember thinking in the dream that this would make a great film (don’t worry dreams are like that). The dream ended and so did my sleep. I slowly woke up, still thinking about the awesome dream. Gradually the plans and practicalities of the day ahead loomed into thought. The dream drifted to the periphery of my thought, but I still wanted to record what had happened.

I got washed, dressed and went downstairs to the desk that had my pens and paper ready to write the basic outline of my fantastic dream story. As I approached the desk I searched my mind for the story, reached out into my subconscious, grasping futilely. The idea was gone.

“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.”
Hector Berlioz

I now keep a notebook and pen next to my bed. I have never had that dream again, however, perhaps writing this post will enable my subconscious to leak it into my dreams again.

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

Erich Fromm

and as you let yourself go, you’ll discover creative vistas laying themselves before you.

“The key question isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.”

Abraham Maslow

There’s very little you can add to that except, ‘Go forth and create!’

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

Beatrix Potter