Quotes About Innovation

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

All the writers for 'The Chi,' they're all phenomenal, so I'm just working on projects with them. They have great scripts.

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

I think it's our job as writers for Marvel Comics to continue to create those type of stories that can be mined instead of just trying to give readers exactly what they see on film.

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things.

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.

I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that's the tradition of it, but I do think that in order for the art form to grow, it's important to not let tradition get in the way of innovation.

The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.

I think it would be cool to maybe do something with Ed Sheeran. That would be awesome and interesting. He writes amazing songs, and I could easily hear Backstreet Boys sing 'Shape Of You.'