Quotes About Creativity

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life - nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.

To paint that horrible scene, something terrible must have befallen the artist.

Maybe one day we'll all be Steampunks

Writing a book and going underground are so similar. That fear of the unknown never really goes away. But, after a while, it becomes a perverse comfort

Be fiercely protective of your imagination, and nurture it.

Writing, for me, is like trying to restart an engine that has rested for years, silent and rusting, in an empty lot—choked with water and dirt, infiltrated by ants and spiders and cockroaches. Vines and weeds shoved into it and sprouting out of it. A kind of coughing splutter, an eruption of leaves and dust, a voice that sounds a little like mine but is not the same as it was before;

Perhaps a copy could also be superior to the original, create a new reality by avoiding old mistakes.

You see, if the function of a tool is removed, you have Art. Very witty, don't you think?

He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.

They had their lives, and I had mine. I liked most of all pretending to be a biologist, and pretending often leads to becoming a reasonable facsimile of what you mimic, even if only from a distance

What can you do when your five senses are not enough?

Writing fiction is like doing a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces turned upside down.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

If they were expected," she shot back, "then they wouldn't be breakthroughs, now would they?

Inspiring isn't the same as plotting.

In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential -- the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.

There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.