Quotes About Creativity

We are the total of our longings, he had written. But Kevin was a song-writer, not a poet, and he never did use it.

He turned to the king of Valledo. "Make your country—all of Esperaña if you can unite it—into a land that understands more than only war and righteous piety. Allow space in your lives for more than battle chants to inspire soldiers. Teach your people to . . . understand a garden, the reason for a fountain, music.

Maybe it is the art that will outlive us all.

You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.

Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements.

Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.

I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want — it's like an excuse for Halloween everyday.

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

My Poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.

What she wanted was to donate to the world a good Maud Martha. That was the offering, the bit of art, that could not come from any other. She would polish and hone that.

A writer needs to read almost more than his eyes can bear, to know what is going, & what has gone on.... And a writer needs general knowledge. And a writer needs to write. And a writer needs to live richly with eyes open, & heart, too." —

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air." ? Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry comes out of life.

Writing is a delicious agony.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.