Quotes About Creativity

I don't want to make 'Chandni Bar 2.' I didn't think 'Fashion 2' will happen. If a film ends on a high note... makes the audience think and lingers in the end... that is needed.

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.

I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

I don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I'd give up. I'd become a banker.

I spend time editing and massaging each note. Then I start layering with different instruments, adding harmonies, counterpoint, and whatever the song calls for. Then I arrange it into a whole piece, and decide where I need to add live musicians. It takes a lot of time, but it is very satisfying once it is complete.

It is disappointing to note that you no longer find enough of melodious music in Malayalam films.

I love music, but can't hold a note in a bucket. I can't sing, can't play an instrument.

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.

Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I always make sure I have a notebook with me.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

I get up, and if I feel out of sorts, I'll do some exercises, I'll feed my cat, then I go get my coffee, take a notebook, and write for a couple of hours.

If I was at school and one of my friends said something funny, I'd write it down in a notebook and take it to the writers meetings. I never told my friends about it. I just thought I could incorporate stuff that was true to life.

Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk.

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

I sleep with a notebook next to me, and most nights I sleep with my guitar next to me.

I don't know what I'd do without my little black notebook.

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.