Quotes About Creativity

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

Theatre polished me as an artist.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

I've had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other's working process, which can lead to work where everyone seems to be in different plays.

I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'

There's nothing more political than fantasy.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

I'm not a political comic.

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

There are many elements needed to secure economic growth. Certainly, people must be politically free to innovate, invest, build, and create things, and they must be incentivized to do so by knowing they can keep the rewards for their efforts.

I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.