Quotes About Creativity

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of the immensely confusing creature that is woman.

If you look back at Disney's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' or 'Pocahontas,' animated films were trying to get more and more real before CG really arrived.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I come from theatre, and I feel like I have to go back to it every few years because it's like nourishment for the soul. And, as an actor, it's the place you have most control: no one cuts or edits you, and you get to tell the story each night.

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

I get most of my influences from specific genres. I listen to a lot of R&B music, obviously. But, jazz, and bossa nova music, too.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.