4 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Creativity

Samuel Johnson quotes on creativity

74. Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

93. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

147. No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

204. Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.