“Creativity is the residue of time wasted.”
“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.”
“No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.”
“The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don’t have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.”
“time wasted is not always a waste of time.”
“Why will a man waste his creative potency and superlative powers in vanity when he can live in prosperity?”