“Creative people love solitude. It is essential, during a reflection or a creative moment, to have total silence around you, to confide the ideas of mind to your body.”

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.”

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

“Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.”

“I love the play between the conscious and unconscious minds in the creative moment, and for me chess and the martial arts are both about developing a rich working relationship with your intuition.”

“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”

“But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.”

“You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.”

“One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.”

“File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.”