Quotes About Creativity

What this all amounted to was that as I was growing up, long before I'd ever thought to create fictional worlds in prose, I was busily constructing in my mind a richly detailed place called 'Japan' – a place to which I in some way belonged, and from which I drew a certain sense of my identity and my confidence.

Why write a novel if it was going to offer more or less the same experience someone could get by turning on a television?

your use of color is more like, well, a pond on a summer's evening. You do beautiful things with color, Josie. Things no one else even thought about.' 'Mom. People's children's pictures always look that way to them. Something to do with the evolutionary process.

My imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

When Rae got back, she spread her empty hands wide and said Okay, guess where I hid it. She even turned around for me, but I couldn't see a bulge big enough to hide a flashlight. With a grin, she reached down the front of her shirt into the middle of her bra, and pulled out a flashlight with flourish. I laughed. Cleavage is great, she said. Like an extra pocket.

Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. The third in place of a signature, was a lightning bolt surrounded by fog. Beside the drawing, someone had scrawled in inch-high letters 10 A.M. Tori snatched it from me and turned it over. So where's the message? Right there. I pointed from picture to picture. It says: Chloe, I'll be back, Simon.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were hand drawn. Some were black-and-white, but most were in full color, everything from character sketches to splash panels to full pages, done in a style that wasn't quite manga, wasn't quite comic book.

Tell me half a cup's worth of story and we'll call it a night.

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The muse is a fickle bitch. Woke me at five. You're

If clothes are good, or even if they're bad in an interesting way, The Garment District is where they go when they die.

Imaginary houses are sexy. Real ones are work.

Some writers write to escape reality. Others write to understand it. But the best writers write in order to take possession of reality, and so transform it.

Sometimes Winston imagined he had devised a policy when all he had done was coin a phrase.

The Cathedral Builders by Jean Gimpel.

The invention of the pointed arch, he wrote, was a rare event in history, when the solution to a technical problem—how to build a taller church—was also sublimely beautiful.

S'infilò un vestito da tennis, lungo fino al ginocchio che si era cucita da sola accorciando l'orlo sfilacciato di un vecchio abito di sua madre. Non sarebbe andata a giocare a tennis, ma a ballare e il suo obiettivo era di sembrare americana. Si mise il rossetto e la cipria e si pettinò i capelli sciolti, sfidando la preferenza governativa per le trecce.

If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?

He who walks out of step hears another drum.

I figured, There's no sense doing anything when everything's already been done

He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum

The fundamental message is self-righteous, and it takes this form: 'T. S. Eliot is a homophobe and I am not. Therefore, I am a better person than Eliot.' To which the proper response is: 'But T. S. Eliot could really write, and you can't.

Culture has very much to do with the human spirit. What we find beautiful or entertaining or moving is rooted in our spiritual life.