Quotes About Creativity

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

There's always a different energy when you're surrounded by a group of women creatives.

It's good practice to be silly. It's good for you.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going to be a writer.

You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.

I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.