Quotes About Creativity

Ramping a jacked-up hell-quad over a dirge-singing pack of goblins with a burned-to-death stuntman at the wheel. I'm

I know art when I see it, but I don't make it. Some people are makers, others are vampires—that's me. We grow fat on your ideas and imagination. I'm just a beautiful tapeworm, darling…

You're not tasked with desalinating an ocean or training a komodo dragon to cure ebola. I'm saying, sludge yourself into the ass receptacle and peck keyboard keys like a hungry chicken until it makes words. Or pick up one of the tools used by our distant ancestors -- it is a tube filled with the liquid black souls of all the animals we've made extinct -- and use this pen as a scribe would to etch scribbly heretical word-shapes onto dead tree pulp.

Just remember: there is no Muse, and if there is a Muse, you own it – it doesn't own you.)

If you're being skewered by a unicorn, the secret is: tell the unicorn he doesn't exist. If you do that, he'll disappear in a puff of Lucky Charms cereal. That's true. That's fact. Same thing goes for writer's block.

This is not a book of writing advice. It's not here to help make you a better writer. Rather, it's here to help you become a better storyteller.

Crayola makes all kinds of crazy colors. You know. Burnt umber. Burnt sienna. Blanched almond. Baby-shit yellow. And so on, and so forth. I'm just saying, cockroaches Have their own color. It's distinct. Crayola should get on that. The kids'll love it.

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

Because I know what it's like to pour your heart and soul into a book, day after day after day, when it comes to the work of other authors, I either give them five stars -- or say nothing! I simply can't bring myself to do anything else.

who having learnt the art of self-tormenting, are diligently and zealously employed in creating an imaginary world, which they can never inhabit, only to make the real world, with which they must necessarily be conversant, gloomy and insupportable.

Her self, then, was represented in her books.

That's sort of what happened with Cassie and me. I guess I was Goya, just doing my thing, and she was the French Revolution.

S]he was my Muse, my alcoholic's bourbon on the rocks: irresistible.

We find hope where we can, and where we cannot, invent it.

A floating catfish cake doesn't sink!

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it's going to be okay.

So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth — an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself

Art is of absolutely no use to the masses

La musique doit humblement chercher à faire plaisir, l'extrême complication est le contraire de l'art