Quotes About Creativity

vacuuming up countless pages of the genre like a blue whale inhaling krill.

great scientists invented technologies to achieve their goals, but never failed to modify existing technologies to suit their needs whenever possible. Why reinvent the wheel when there was so much else that needed to be done?

Douglas E. Richards

Robert Sawyer, James Gunn, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Ben Bova, and Alan Dean Foster.

He had read a description of the life of a novelist, and decided his life wasn't too far different. Writing is easy, Gene Fowler had famously observed. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Sometimes I think of myself as Frodo in the Lord of The Rings. In my case the ring's power is that of almost inconceivable creativity and intellect. But like Frodo's burden it is easily accessible, right there around my neck at all times, exerting its magnetic pull. The temptation to use it, especially when I'm desperately in need of some insight, is almost irresistible." Desh

My level of skill? My imagination may be prodigious, but that's a lot to ask of it," he said with a twinkle in his eye.

Bulging biceps?" she repeated with a broad grin. "Wow. Your imagination is even more potent than I thought.

Sort of like Alexander Graham Bell putting the finishing touches on the world's first and only phone . . . and then getting an incoming call.

Douglas E. Richards

instantly see the answer.

rocket-propelled suppository

Douglas E. Richards

Sometimes I think of myself as Frodo in the Lord of The Rings. In my case the ring's power is that of almost inconceivable creativity and intellect.

Douglas E. Richards

The enemy is conventional language; the antidote is poetry and mild intoxicants.

The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.

Efforts to silence the people who raised their voice – whether through violence, intimidation or the courts – meant that three decades after the Rushdie affair there was almost no one in Europe who would dare write a novel, compose a piece of music or even draw an image that might risk Muslim anger. Indeed, they ran in the other direction. Politicians and almost everybody else went out of their way to show how much they admired Islam.

Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

Being guided by your own thoughts and abilities, living out there on the high wire and being rewarded for it: That was the Chicago way. Nothing else counted. If it were sensational enough, whether a scientific breakthrough, a rousing new style of music, or an underworld murder, it would be celebrated.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.