Quotes About Creativity

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing -- I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn't really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project -- it's an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.

For Andy, who encouraged me to write in the first place. See, this is all your fault . . .

it's poetry that's taught me everything I know. Poetry has shown me the world; I owe a debt of gratitude to poetry for the love I feel for nature, the earth, the trees, the ocean. Before I had read any poetry I resembled nothing so much as a blind woman—and a mute one, too, because I had no idea how to put my thoughts in order, no idea how to speak, the words wouldn't come. Poetry taught me how to talk.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: "I am here to live out loud."

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind. Women who want children are this way. Artists are this way about pictures. It doesn't go away. You may forget for a few months but then it's back, the unfinished pieces of what you want.

A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts.

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.

A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of the mind.

A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers' minds.

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.

A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love.

A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.

An art is a poetry but only a few can read it.

Dancing is an expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way.

Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful.

Do your own thing with love and passion. You will be happy, no matter the result of your action.

Drink the ecstasy of life and write about it.