Get inspired by the most famous quotes on creativity and writing from Oscar Wilde.

1. THE BEST QUOTES FROM
Oscar Wilde
ON WRITING AND
CREATIVITY

2. As one of the most
celebrated writers of
the 19th century, Oscar Wilde
knew a thing or two about
writing and creativity.

3. As Wilde once said,
“The only thing to do
with good advice is
pass it on. It is never
any use to oneself.”

4. So, we’re passing on his advice about advice.
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famous quotes about writing and creativity.

5. 1
IT’S OKAY TO BEND THE
RULES.

6. “A writer is
someone who
has taught
his mind to
misbehave.”

7. 2
BE CONCISE.

8. “I am so clever
that sometimes I
don't understand
a single word of
what I am saying.”

9. 3
IMPROVE YOUR WRITING
BY READING THE WORK
OF PEOPLE YOU ADMIRE.

10. “It is what you read
when you don't have
to that determines
what you will be when
you can't help it.”

11. 4
QUALITY CONTENT IS
SUBJECTIVE.
GOOD WRITING IS
CONSTANT.

12. “There is no such
thing as a moral or an
immoral book. Books are
well written, or badly
written. That is all.”

13. 5
DON’T BE AFRAID TO
STEP OUTSIDE YOUR
CONTENT COMFORT
ZONE.

14. “An idea that is
not dangerous is
unworthy of being
called an idea at all.”

15. 6
DON’T LET THE FEAR OF
FAILURE PREVENT YOU
FROM PUBLISHING.
EVERYONE FAILS.

16. “Experience is
merely the name
men gave to their
mistakes.”

17. 7
WRITING CAN BE
PAINFUL, BUT
INCREDIBLY REWARDING.

18. “Words! Mere words! How
terrible they were! How clear, and
vivid, and cruel! One could not escape
from them. And yet what a subtle magic
there was in them! They seemed to be
able to give a plastic form to formless
things, and to have a music of their own
as sweet as that of viol or of lute.
Mere words! Was there anything
so real as words?”

19. 8
BEING CRITICAL OF YOUR
WORK MAKES IT EVEN
BETTER.

20. “The imagination
imitates. It is the
critical spirit that
creates.”

21. 9
DON’T OBSESS OVER
PERFECTION.
AT A CERTAIN POINT
YOU’RE WASTING TIME.

22. “I was working on
the proof of one of my
poems all the morning,
and took out a comma.
In the afternoon I put it
back again.”

23. 10 DON’T GET STUCK
CREATING THE SAME
THING OVER AND OVER
AGAIN.

24. “Consistency is the
last refuge of the
unimaginative.”

25. 11 DON’T MIMIC OTHER
PEOPLE’S WRITING STYLE.

26. “They are always
asking a writer why he does
not write like somebody else,
or a painter why he does not
paint like somebody else, quite
oblivious of the fact that if either
of them did anything of the kind
he would cease to be an artist.”

27. 12
DON’T THINK YOU HAVE
NOTHING TO SAY.
YOUR POINT OF VIEW IS
UNIQUE.

28. “Be yourself;
everyone else is
already taken.”

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