Quotes About Inspiration

I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.

Theater is an amazing outlet.

Music is the outlet for me because when I do step into the studio, I feel no barriers.

I've always been the person who has needed a creative outlet.

There are many things I love about my job! For instance, as a creative outlet, there's no better way to express myself than through choreography and physical movement.

Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I guess I would rap.

Art is a creative outlet and necessary for people involved in creativity.

Musically, I feel like the band was always my outlet.

I write books and songs and all sorts of bits and pieces on the side. It's important to have that creative outlet - I'm really passionate about it.

I'm really happy with everything that I've been fortunate enough to do and with the creative outlets I've been blessed to have.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one point, I came across Gus Dapperton in the back of my head when I was making music.

Things like 'following your passion' and 'finding your creative outlets' didn't mean anything to me because I didn't have that area of my brain.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to write because I just didn't outline, and I had no path.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.