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

Beatrix Potter

“The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
Charles Brower

Now I’m not quite sure I agree with this. I have had success both working on my own and with groups.

I think the bottom line is what sort of group you have. If you have a group of people who regularly exercise their creative muscles the ideas will come thick and fast, of course you’ll need to filter the ones that are so leftfield they aren’t practical, but that is one of the joys of being with this sort of group; ideas grow exponetially. On the other hand, if you have a group of grey suits whose primary concern is the bottom line, then creativity by committee may well be a lost cause.

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people”

Thomas Mann

“The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities”

Frank Barron

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“No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.”
John Cassavetes

Life is “trying things to see if they work”.

Ray Bradbury

Go and live a little, have an idea and be creative with it.

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“When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
Mary Kay Ash

“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come”

Victor Hugo

Sometimes when the creative idea arrives you really don’t need to do much at all, apart from going with the flow.

“To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Go on break the rules… don’t copy; create.

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club”

Jack London

Although, to be honest, a more sedate approach will yield results too.