Quotes About Creativity

a scientific experiment to test whether new rules of physics could spark fascinating life forms whose creativity and pleasure was worth the pain they suffered.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.

When I was young, my language wore coats and shirts and trousers, neckties, bespoke shoes. In my lifetime as a writer I have cast off layer after layer of clothing in pursuit of nudity.

Everyone who concentrates all day, in the evening needs to let the half-wit out for a walk.

Because of multiple drafts I have been accused of self-discipline. Really I am self-indulgent, I cherish revising so much.

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.

Government is good at generating ideas. In

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

McKee's a genius. And hillarious. You'll like him, too, Charles. He's all for originality, just like you. He says that we have to realize that we all write in a genre and we must find our originality within that genre. As it turns out, there hasn't been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary. My genre's thriller, what's yours?

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

When you are mindful of your intuition, you gain a mind full of inspiration.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.