Quotes About Creativity

I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing.

Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in genre.

Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

You never know what you're getting into like some of the best experiences I've ever had have been movies that literally had a million dollar budget and everybody's eating Cheetos all day and running around without permits and trying not to get caught.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. In my case, anything can talk. Like the mountains.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.

I was doing space girl outfits way before Katy Perry or Gaga!

If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.

My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.

It's not easy for an artist, especially for a girl. But you know, you just have to work very hard, persist, trust what you have, your essence.

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.