Quotes About Creativity

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

Every day is a great day when you have a brand new Marlen pen.

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.

I always have pen and paper with me.

Never leave a pen around me - it will be gone.

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Why would you not have a robot that looks like Abraham Lincoln? Why would it look like an erector set? Why use a computer with a punchcard, when you could use one with a touch pen on the screen? Why a car, when you could use a jetpack?

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

I'm glad I wrote them when I did because I think if I were to write my first novel now, it would be a different book, and it may not be the book that everybody wants to read. But if I were given a red pen now, and I went back... I'd take that thing apart.

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.