Quotes About Creativity

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn't funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it.

Days she's wasted locked up here in this room, and nothing she's done is half as good as the sketch of a chair she did while shitting her pants.

To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W. Let the wind erase it.

Our real discoveries come from chaos. From going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

Me, personally, I tell dude 137 how I'm adding an embossed slogan to my dildos. Cast in high-relief going around the base, it's going to say, The Dick That Killed Cassie Wright... On the thickest part, so if you twist it the letters of the writing stimulate the clit.

The se­cret is to not let your imag­ina­tion get car­ried away.

do not write to be liked. Write to be remembered.

Slang is the writer's palette of colors.

Because the only frontier left is the world of intangibles, ideas, stories, music, art. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone, A Tale of Two Titties...

La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demás...

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.

Art never comes from happiness

Three parts description . Two parts instruction . One part onomatopoeia . Mix to taste .

The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people's sad, true disasters. We write in order to repeat the past.

En un mundo donde millones de personas creen que su deidad concibió un hijo mortal con una humana virgen, es asombrosa la poca imaginación que muestra la mayoría de la gente.

Solitude is a natural place for a writer to be.

If you want Neil Gaiman I could draw you a map.

Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.

So long as my checks cleared, I'd no interest in figuring down to the penny how poor I always was. For the same reason, I've put off writing a book on writing. I didn't want to be faced with how little I could offer on the subject. How stupid I remained after all this time and practice.

By writing , people present their lives as fiction and tackle their issues as a craft exercise . By redeeming their protagonist , they find their own redemption .

Once someone who draws superheroes draws your picture , you never want to go back to reality .

Think of a story as a stream of information. At best it's an ever-changing series of rhythms. Now think of yourself, the writer, as a DJ mixing tracks.