Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.