Quotes About Creativity

And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss.

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

Alliteration. It's when you repeat the same consonant in a phrase," Memphis explained. "Huh. I was hoping it was something dirty.

Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

Sam grabbed one of Jericho's Civil War soldier figurines and held it up to his mouth. Oh, Jericho, he said in a high-pitched voice. Take me in your arms, you big he-man, you!

Sinjin was sitting bare-chested with Petra's blue feather boa wrapped around his neck and draped over his shoulder. His long dark curls had been teased and sprayed into a sexy mane. Heavy black eyeliner rimmed his eyes. "Am I not gorgeous? I want to snog myself. I'm like a postmodern Lord Byron." "You put the ironic in Byronic," Petra quipped. "Well said, luv.

I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.

He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and she is my meaning.

Write like it matters, and it will.

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

The dance of life should be created from moment to moment with individuality and spontaneity.

the canvas had disfigured it. Koko squirmed and squealed and made himself

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.

St. Bernard said, 'Every word one writes smites the Devil.

son favored abstract expressionism.

They've continued to think of VR as primarily a game technology. But it's got the potential to be much, much more.

Herbert's And now in age I bud again After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain and relish versing.