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What writers & others say<\/h2>\n

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\u201cCreativity is an import-export game. It is not a creation game.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Ronald S. Burt, sociologist, University of Chicago<\/h6>\n
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\u201cCreative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Johnny Cash, American singer and songwriter<\/h6>\n
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\u201cThe secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century<\/h6>\n
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\u201cAn idea is a feat of association.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Robert Frost, poet<\/h6>\n
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\u201cArt is either plagiarism or revolution.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Paul Gauguin, post-Impressionist painter<\/h6>\n
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\u201cApply the seat of your pants to the seat of the chair.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-winning author<\/h6>\n
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Avoid \u201ccreative incest. As with actual incest, the product of creative incest just keeps getting dumber and dumber and dumber with each generation.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Dan S. Kennedy, author of seven “No B.S.” marketing books<\/h6>\n
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\u201cThere is a muse, but he\u2019s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer station. He lives in the ground. He\u2019s a basement guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there, you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in. You have to do all the grunt labor, in other words, while the muse sits and smokes cigars and admires his bowling trophies and pretends to ignore you.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Stephen King, prolific author of mostly horror novels, in On Writing<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cYou can\u2019t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Jack London, author, oyster pirate, deep-sea sailor, hobo and Alaskan prospector<\/h6>\n
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“I don’t sit at my desk because I have an idea, but in case I do.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Flannery O’Connor, Southern Gothic novelist<\/h6>\n
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\u00a0\u201cCreativity \u2014 the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 William Plomer, South African author<\/h6>\n
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\u201cInnovation most of the time is simply taking A, B, C, and D, which already exist, and putting them together in a form called E.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Wolfgang Schmitt, chairman, Rubbermaid Corp.<\/h6>\n
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\u201cAll the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Grant Wood, American painter best known for \u201cAmerican Gothic\u201d<\/h6>\n
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\u201cWork your day around the creative process, don\u2019t work the creative process around your day.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Ann Wylie, writing coach, Wylie Communications<\/h6>\n
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\u201cEvery really good creative person \u2026 has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject under the sun in which he could not easily get interested \u2014 from, say, Egyptian burial customs to modern art. Every facet of life had fascination for him. Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 James Webb Young, 1930s advertising executive, in\u00a0A Technique for Producing Ideas<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cIt is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 James Webb Young, 1930s advertising executive, in\u00a0A Technique for Producing Ideas<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cThe cold, gray dawn of the morning after.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 James Webb Young, a pre-Mad Men-<\/em>era\u00a0ad executive, in A Technique for Producing Ideas<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cThe production of ideas is just as definite a process as the production of Fords. The production of ideas, too, runs on an assembly line; that in this production the mind follows an operative technique which can be learned and controlled; and that its effective use is just as much a matter of practice in the technique as is the effective use of any tool.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 James Webb Young, a pre-Mad Men-era ad executive, in A Technique for Producing Ideas<\/em><\/h6>\n
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