A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die.
A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die.

Similar Johan Fundin quotes:
Other Creativity :
- Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.
- Creativity involves having curiosity and wanting to find what is better.
- I got tired of all the rules. So I created my own world: one without rules.
- Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.
- The best businesses use the most imagination and the least capital.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination has no borders.
- The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain
- Good writing is both what one does and does not say.
- The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
- You can understand conflict, but you don’thave to live in it.
- Conflict is not necessarily bad. If you can avoid taking conflict personally, it is actually a way to get better decisions and better results.
- In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.
- The more you have seen, the larger your cognitive map, the more you can imagine.
- People try to understand me and what I do. I don’t want to be understood. Don’t put me in a box until I’m dead.
- The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
- Sometimes the solution of a problem is just the perspective of thinking.
- Create with your heart, build with you rmind.
- We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them
- Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvellous.
- If you must walk in someone’s shadow make sure it’s your own