Quotes About Creativity

If life gives you lemons, learn how to juggle.

Don't let anyone discourage you, Jimmy said Maxine. Not even the inanimate objects on your walls, added Rafe. Were they really laughing at you, man? Yup, I said, tapping my temple. In my imagination. Whoa. That's where they're loudest.

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James Patterson

Salvador Dali's devastating Basket of Bread, the masterpiece that he painted just before being expelled from Madrid's Academia

I guess. But not in the, uh, traditional way.

There's hundreds

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James Patterson

of all, it needed a name. I thought about it for a while and came up with Operation R.A.F.E., which stands for: Rules Aren't For Everyone

Even Michelangelo, when painting the Sistine Chapel, built the scaffolds himself and mixed his own paint.

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Write the story, don't write sentences.

Tell us a story, Daddy," Chrissy said as I collapsed again.

James Patterson

James Patterson

Zig when the world expects you to zag

Honestly, I got a lot of offers which were similar to 'Badlapur,' and I didn't want that. Unfortunately, we live in a world which is so myopic that they only want to offer you what you have already done.

Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.