Quotes About Creativity

I really just like to be at a desk.

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

I was terrible at desk jobs.

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

For me, it's almost a 24/7 process. It's not like I only think when I'm in the office sitting at my desk.

Part of making art is learning how you make it best. I'm not great at sitting down at a desk and writing for three hours. I write best verbally, talking through an idea with people, so I do my best work when I collaborate.

My desk is my drums.

You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office? Can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done? We believe it can.

I like to sit at my desk... sometimes I get inspiration when I'm going about my normal day-to-day life.

Sometimes, when I'm sitting at my desk for long hours and nothing's coming to me, I remember my fifth-grade teacher, the way her eyes lit up when she said, 'This is really good.'

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

My desktop is really chaotic, and I'm always trying to work out where I am going to put all these ideas.

The people who talk on the edgier 'Song Exploder' have often made their entire record on their desktop. It's never been easier to compete, but it's never been harder to win, either.

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

Desperate times make for desperate songs.

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.