Quotes About Creativity

But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. They always begin with a little boy or girl who goes out and meets the fairies of polyanthuses and gardenias and apple blossoms: 'Flowers and fruits, and other winged things.' These fairies try to be funny, and fail; or they try to preach, and succeed.

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind.

Emily Dickinson, the poet, said a beautiful thing. "I dwell in possibility".

Maxinquaye by Tricky,

It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by design. The wise writer writes the best he can and leaves it to posterity to decide about greatness.

Nesses estúdios decorria muita colaboração; conta-nos Vasari que quando, certo dia, Leonardo pintou um anjo numa obra de Verrocchio e se saiu melhor que o mestre, Verrocchio desistiu pura e simplesmente do pincel e deixou de pintar. Já fora ultrapassado.

She herself replied to one of her oldest friends who had written asking how to address her: "I really don't know! It might be anything—you might try 'All Hail Duchess,' that is an Alice in Wonderland sort of Duchess, or just 'Greetings' or 'What Ho, Duchess' or 'Say, Dutch'—in fact you can please yourself."28

Unfortunately I'm one of those people who writes better when they're unhappy.

Julia's defining quality, maybe, was her combination of outer normality, even placidity, and a roiling, crazily volatile inner life that expressed itself mainly in her writing.

The inglorious arts of peace.

The same arts that did gain A power, must it maintain.

Don't overthink it. Just write.

Andrew Mayne

A creative mind is always on (unless it's not).

If you're Stephen King and you realized halfway through you've created far too many plot lines; you arbitrarily murder a few in the middle of the book. If you're George RR Martin; well, you just keep writing more books and murder them at your leisure.

My solution was to make that a feature, not a bug.

the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. arthur c. clark

What I mean is that if I'm making up something in my head using places and situations I already know, then it goes smoothly.

A completed mediocre idea is infinitely better than an unfinished stroke of genius.

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there.

Why did the reindeer fly over the mountain? Answer: Because he couldn't fly under it.