4 Andre Gide Quotes on Creativity

Andre Gide quotes on creativity

3. What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

27. It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

38. The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

53. If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.