Quotes About Creativity

I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the night, on tour constantly from when I was 19 - that I destroyed my arms and shoulders in the process.

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

At Shondaland, six out of nine writers were of color - not Latinx, but I was like, 'Wait, I can do that but for the whole room?' 'Atlanta' had done that, then I can do that.

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.

It took us nine months to write 'The East'; we didn't start writing it on the computer until seven and a half months into it.

Luckily, filmmaking is not a nine-to-five job.

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

I'm just not Mr. Joe that goes to work nine-to-five. I never will be.

I can never see myself working a nine-to-five.

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

When I wrote my first novel - I was nineteen - I did it very quickly. If you write fast, you feel like you're entering something not yet familiar - a world rather than thoughts about the world.

I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write entirely.

We have to think of what kinds of experiences we can create that only Nintendo can create and what no other companies can create. So the result is the Nintendo 3DS.

At Nintendo, we think deeply about everything.

When it comes to Nintendo products, I gotta go with the new stuff.

Even before the advent of smart devices, we employed touchscreens for our games with Nintendo DS, and we also adopted accelerometers for our Wii Remotes faster than smart devices did.

Nintendo is an entertainment company, but I think we need to broaden the definition of entertainment.

The advantage for Nintendo is that we always try to do things that other companies don't try to do. That is something that the general public appreciates.

Nintendo, at its heart, is about making us feel younger than we are today.

I'm hoping to have a ninth decade like Matisse's.

There were times in the writing of Ninth House' where I thought, have I gone too far?'