Quotes About Creativity

Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint you can at it.

You...are...a...fridge...with wings. We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

i play a mean harmonica

It was stupidly, infuriatingly impossible. No wonder I hadn't written anything decent in ages— I couldn't even figure out how to tell a boy that I loved him.

James Patterson

We know," Nudge said apologetically. "It's just—she's going to make sweet potatoes with raisins and little marshmallows on top.

All teachers who were telling everyone where to go were wearing outfits made of aluminum foil , like robot aliens . 

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

My dear, there is no universal secret. There's only the secret each writer discovers for herself. The path forward

Between Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Dorothy Parker, everything worth saying has already been said, and said better than i could ever say it

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

CHAPTER 36 "Our brightest blazes are often kindled by unexpected sparks." —Isaiah

The Gasman leaned over and examined the tangled pile of stereo guts spread out on the kitchen table. "It looks like a robot came in here and threw up," he observed

I love this snarky line about critics. It comes from the English playwright John Osborne: Asking a working writer how he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

The day, and it was a day, that writing started to be fun for me, the day things began to really click, was the day I stopped trying to write sentences and started writing stories.

James Patterson

James Patterson

The actor Danny Kaye used to say, "Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint you can at it." I like that thought. More important, I try to live by it as much as I can. I

The most striking thing about beautiful churches, to me, is that they were mostly designed by people who were inspired by a belief in something larger and more important than themselves, and this is how I try to lead my own life.

Now I have a shot at being the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic. "The planet Earth?" asks Phineas of—you guessed it—Phineas and Ferb. "Or Mars? We built a portal to Mars for the science fair once.

One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working

James Patterson

The bestselling author of all time, James Patterson.

James Patterson