Quotes About Creativity

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

I'm very inspired by past music.

Desormie, ahead of me, hummed out a melody with lipfart percussion and aggressively dance-walked and thought it was strutting.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs.

Depc? was, wszyscy poeci, wszyscy m?drce i proroki, Których wielbi? ?wiat szeroki.

We have the magic of art that we may not perish of the truth.

On one occasion she (Milner) said to me 'Winnicott really believed, you know, that playing was the only real reality … he thought play, all creativity was sheer magic … that if people can play, anything can happen'. So, I said to her, 'What's wrong with thinking playing is reality, that creativity is magic?' And she said, 'It meant that he believed he could help anyone and everyone, that he was magic because he could play'.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

I keep trying to get Matt here to cross back over into fiction, but he insists on slumming it in the theatre like some sort of third-class peasant.

With playwriting, there's a lot of false starts. Ill-fated first acts, etcetera. I blame it all on Shakespeare. He stole all my ideas like three hundred years before I was even born. He futuristically ruined my career.

Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Virginia Woolf, David Foster Wallace, Seneca, Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, William Inge, Anne Sexton, Hart Crane, Yukio Mishima, and John Kennedy Toole.

Poetry is the intuitive explanation of the unconscious mind

A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.

Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.

A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fianc'e; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than with the screams of the dying.

By 40,000 years ago, there are clear, unequivocal depictions of figurative art in multiple forms, and clear evidence for imagination, abstract thought, music and profound fine motor skills. Something had changed.

Many people know of the maxim said by the biologist François Jacob describing natural selection as a tinkerer. I like to think of the words of the US president Teddy Roosevelt: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Every scientist knows that the most productive conversations happen in the bar.