Quotes About Creativity

I don't generally like things that are too pedestrian. But at the same time, and if I'm in the right mood, hey - I ain't gonna lie - I listen to Joni Mitchell. I listen to 'Blue,' I listen to Miles Davis.

I know that I'm probably far more pedestrian and less talented than many who dreamed of becoming writers but couldn't see the road so easily.

As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.

I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'

A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion business. I'm in the lifestyle business.

My peers inspire me, especially being a newer artist.

When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.

When you're a musician, you are around your peers a lot, like Slipknot and Alice In Chains... you name the band. We're all just kind of friends.

Being a musician means I am 'hanging out' a lot, like driving on tour or being at a show or whatever, so maybe there's more time to interact with peers and develop jokes.

Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers weren't interested in me reading 30-40 pages to them.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.

I always have a good pen with me.

When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.