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There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.