Quotes About Creativity

I've named everything that I've ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris

Amy Sherman-Palladino

He was like Tennessee Williams, shooting three bull's-eyes in a row, all with his blind eye.

All Americans wrote better in Europe. They crossed the ocean, and every word they wrote was brilliant. "There's someone at my door," Maddy

She loved the way you could transform the meaning of a scene with how you played it.

Everyone with a camera and a set of draperies runs a portrait studio. Miss

Gardeners are the ultimate mixologists.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Memory feeds imagination.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

Edward gets funky in Beverly Mitchell's (and Jessica Biel's) garage rec room by painting the walls gray, building room screens that are painted gray and chartreuse, upholstering thrift store and existing furniture... Hildi brings a little refinement to George and Jeff Stolt'z bachelor pad living room... (Season 3, Episode 52)

This episode is Ty's Trading Spaces debut. (Season1,Episode 7)

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

À l'instant la chose qui n'a pas le monopole au Maroc c'est la banalité.

Papá, es que yo quiero estar siempre en el cine, quiero vivir en el cine...

Poetry is dancing with words.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

I'm filled with desire—to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.