Quotes About Creativity

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

When I have a chapter finished, I jot down who the viewpoint characters are, what they are wearing, what happened in the chapter. So as I go along, I outline each book as I write it. I never outline ahead of the writing, but after the writing is done. That keeps the creative side of my brain in control of the writing.

Our poems are what the gods couldn't make without going through us.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

Will you write?" I asked. "Probably not. The pen is a demanding mistress. I take delight in thwarting her expectations.

Shepherdess of the Sphinxes by Leonor Fini.

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.

But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there too, nestled somewhere within it. Those who get their inner voice and direction from the cool mysterious insides of the moon, and not from the earth like the rest of us.

More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.

Don't you wish you could live inside a book sometimes?" "All the time.

...but beautiful mosaics are made of broken pieces.

Write the story. Don't write sentences.

Talent guided by genius can achieve anything

You're not alone. You're never alone. Use creativity to change what world you're in at this moment.

You are only limited by your own imagination

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people!