Quotes About Creativity

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

I love women like Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, who kind of go out on a limb and do their own thing. I find it very inspiring and it allows you to do what you want to do.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

There was a great sense of community mainly among the women artists at the time because we felt left out. I still know most of the women that I knew then, the ones that are still alive.

I love collaborating with strong women.

In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time.

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

After Kidulthood, I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.