Imagination and Creativity

What is it that makes some people creative? Imagination. What gives them the ability to catch the eyes, or minds or even hearts of people? Creativity combined with imagination.

We as writers, understand that creativity and imagination used together are the magic key to writing an article, story, poem, paly, or book, will entertain the reader. One without the other tends to be come a dull, drab shadow of what it could be.

So, dust off your inner child. Let your imagination come out and play. You'll be amazed at how creative you can be when you bring reintroduce your imagination to your creativity.

• Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere. - Albert Einstein
• Imagination will often carry us to world's that never were but without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
• My eyes make pictures when they are shut. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. - Theodore Geisel
• A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. - Author Unknown
• Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. - Simone Weil
• Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. - George Scialabba

• You never have to change anything you got up to write in the middle of the night. - Saul Bellow
• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck
• Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. - Simone Weil
• When you are describing,
  A shape, or sound, or tint;
  Don't state the matter plainly,
  But put it in a hint;
  And learn to look at all things,
  With a sort of mental squint.
  -Lewis Carroll-
• Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. - Norman Podhoretz
  
  
• Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play. -Henri Matisse

• If imagination is the capacity to conceive of what is not, then creativity, in turn, is imagination applied: doing something, or making something, with that initial conception. - Eric Liu & Scott Noppe-Brandon
• Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. -Charles Mingus
• All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung
• Without a healthy and well-fed imagination, there is no creativity or innovation.
  Eric Liu & Scott Noppe-Brandon
• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, the just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while – Steve Jobs
• Creativity is the process of expressing and applying imagination. - Marta Davidovich Ockuly
  
  
  
  

• Read, read, and read some more. You can't read too much. To help you get your imagination going read any type of book you can get your hands on.
• Try to be unique. Try to be a good person, doing good things. Think of how you can help someone, find a new way to work, a new way to compliment someone, or even a new way to let someone know you care.
• Take lots and lots of pictures. They don't have to be of anything in particular. They can be of anything that comes into your line of sight. Then, let your mind wander as you look at these pictures.
• Keep a small notebook or notepad with you at all times. Any time something starts you thinking write what it was. Any off the wall impression or description. Write it down.
• Allow yourself to dream. As Walt Disney said. "If you can dream it, you can achieve it."
• Invite your inner child to come out and play with your creativity. As children we have tremendous imagination. Bring it out of hiding and allow it to help you add life to your creativity. You won't be sorry.