Quotes About Creativity

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one.

Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well.

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are three levels to it. There's us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.

I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.

Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.

I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.

When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.

I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal reasons but because I had a contract.

There are those people who try to change what you're doing. We don't like that. When we went into the studio for 'City of Evil,' we had 99 percent of the songs finished and ready to record.

We finished 'Spaceman,' and before we were even done with that, we had already been talking about what we were going to do next.

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

My thing about demos is that you usually prefer them to the finished thing.

After 'Rings,' I had two feelings: One, I immediately didn't want to work on anything on a large scale. I wanted to work on something really small after I was finished filming the first three. But the other thing was that I had a continuing interest in working on things that were really different.

I never know when a record is finished until it's almost finished.

With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.