“Both reading and writing are experiences – lifelong – in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.”
"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
- Eudora Welty
Balance
"All serious daring starts from within."
- Eudora Welty
Courage
"Toda experiencia es un enriquecimiento en lugar de un empobrecimiento."
- Eudora Welty
Growth
"Only today, he said, today, in October sun, it’s all gold—sky and tree and water. Everything just before it changes looks to be made of gold."
- Eudora Welty
Change
"The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again."
- Eudora Welty
Philosophy
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity