Quotes About Creativity

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.

Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.

Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

Writing is looking for music between sentences.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough.

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

I'm mostly known for writing electro and aggressive bangery house music. But before I started making electro, and while I was making electro, this sort of gushy, make-the-ravers-cry sort of sentimentality is so important to me.

I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.

Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.

I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

To me, comedy and music are not even really separate entities.

Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

I would never want to take on a sequel of someone else's stuff unless I was totally reinventing it.