Quotes About Creativity

I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

Showers last only 10 minutes, but you can't do anything else in there but think. The shower is probably the main place I come up with ideas. That's where I came up with the concept for OneVoice, my nonprofit organization.

I am an off-Broadway, nonprofit kind of guy.

It's as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that's complete nonsense.

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.

I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also it's mostly intuitive; I noodle around with the line until it sounds and feels right.

I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work.

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

I get that there is no one quite like me, nor should there be anybody quite like anybody else in any field. I've always said, 'Don't be the next anyone; be the first you.'

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

There is no norm that a woman must write a certain kind of script.

Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm.

I love fashion and am not scared to deviate from the norm.

The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.