Quotes About Creativity

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.

Being in this whole fashion industry, seeing it firsthand, I never realized just how much work goes into everything.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.

I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No.

When people would ask me what do you do, I'd say I make music for cartoons. I could see the compassion in their eyes. I gotta tell you, there was no room for compassion: I was making money hand over fists.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

I don't know if my songs fit in films.

I love rap lyrics, I love hearing people rap, I love molding a thought or idea into the shape that fits on a rap beat.

From now on, I will work with other people's material if it fits where I want to go.

I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

For me, what matters is who are you working with, what you are working on, and when all that fits naturally, I let it go. Then, I don't care if it is bold or if it needs me to be uninhibited. I just want the role that I am playing to come out the way it should.

Most of the time I approach a track as series of experiments: seeing what fits, and trying to manipulate sounds into each other so they have some kind of dialogue, and then start building a structure around it.

I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.

I think finding a character starts in hair and makeup, fitting room. That's where it all kind of falls into place.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

Fitzgerald was a modernist.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they don't know how to fix it, I always seem to find a way. 'Trust Your Eyes' is the best book I've written, and I don't know if I can do any better.