Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Creativity
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Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
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Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.
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I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily.
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The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.
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