Quotes About Creativity

Having a strong vision can help with innovation, but so much creativity and innovation comes from one's ability to take risks – controlled risks – and learn from mistakes.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.

Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don't do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.

Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

From then on Dirmit wrapped herself up in a quilt made of words. She slept on a bed of words and sat on a chair of words. Atiye became thousands of words whos days were numbered. NuÄŸber sat waiting for words. Zekiye wept words. Seyit smiled with his gleaming white teeth made of false words. Mahmut pressed his tongue against his teeth and whistled words. Halit banged words on the wall.

What I love most about being a writer is the opportunity to "play Goddess" by creating happy endings for people I care about (my characters) and being able to work in my robe!

My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

You realize you are not alone when you write, and you start to write for the person who will read your words. I think that's a bad thing, but I'm not sure, because I do think of being an author someday, and authors have to commune with their readers.

I knew that reading that book would take me into another world — the real world, not the ordinary world of washing the dishes and mopping the floor. It would be like what Keats said about gazing through a magic casement into faery lands forlorn.

You planned as much as you could, then you tap-danced like mad.

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

can make paper cranes in my sleep

All those stories need different endings——which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story.

No me puse a escribir porque en un momento dado hubiese decidido que quería ser escritora, sino que decidí ser escritora porque ya escribía y descubrí que no quería dejar de hacerlo.

Tenemos algo que los robots no tienen, al menos por el momento. Imaginación.