Quotes About Creativity

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

With the first issue of 'Weasel,' I was even aware myself that I'd improved. I still have affection for my earlier stuff, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as 'Weasel.'

The stage is near and dear to me.

When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write.

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never get bored.

To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very near and dear to my heart.

Drake is damn near the best with melodies.

I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.

Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of nearly all the great scenes in all the great plays, from 'Oedipus' to 'Hamlet.'

I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It's the musical trough from which nearly every musician drinks.

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.