Quotes About Creativity

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

We all live like cockroaches in the crevices of our imagination.

Frog backward is GO RF.

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

The classical author who writes his tragedy observing a certain number of known rules is freer than the poet who writes down whatever comes into his head and is slave to other rules of which he knows nothing.

He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.

The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in arms about artistic technique.

El verdadero poeta no se encuentra nunca "inspirado": está precisamente por encima de ese más y de ese menos, iguales a sus ojos, que son la técnica y la inspiración; iguales porque domina ambas a la perfección. El verdadero inspirado nunca está inspirado: lo está siempre; no busca la inspiración ni se irrita contra técnica alguna.»

Inspiration which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

when life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver

Jimmy Bowen: You've got to find your own songs, because nobody but you knows what you want to sing.

You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.

I'd love to work with Gerry Butler, Alan Cummings, and Ewan McGregor. It'd be amazing if we could do a Scottish Hollywood movie.

My best exercise is going on stage and playing, but I stay active. I don't just sit around on my butt all day and do nothing.

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

People are buying music from 12-year-olds. No one realizes they didn't create this. They didn't write this. They didn't make this. All they have to do is press play, and you have a band.

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.