Quotes About Creativity

I just planted this story, but it's growing the way it wants to, and everyone expects me to know in advance what kind of flowers it will have!

And these hands here don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words, Meggie! Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm its creator!

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Was there any more wretched existence than the life of a writer who had run out of words?

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

For me -- for pretty much every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Making stuff: The folks at Instructables have put up some killer HOWTOs for building the technology in this book. It's easy and incredibly fun. There's nothing so rewarding in this world as making stuff, especially stuff that makes you more free.

People actually like supporting the artists whose work they like. It makes them feel happy. You don't have to force them. And if you force them, they don't feel as good.

Never underestimate the power of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor, as a foolish boy once

humans are bright enough to think our way out of the problems we think ourselves into.

Makes me want to tweak reality's gamma slider.

Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

In the presence of my muse, I no longer NEEDED to draw.

Now the birds & trees & the moroccan kitties are my muse.

If I was living in a happier place, said Eggingarde, I might tell stories with happier endings.

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup,' snorted Old Wrinkly, 'only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imaginations... and I used to think of you as an imaginative boy. Give up, if you want to... but I used to think of you as the sort of boy who would NEVER give up, however bad things looked.

Norbert the Nutjob may have been a maniac, but lunacy and genius are very close together, and it had to be admitted, he was a great Dreamer. Perhaps the inventor-madmen of the Future will dream its like again.

But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.

Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???

Toothless crossed his eyes and made a gulping noise with his throat as if he was swallowing ... AAAAAAARGH! screamed Hiccup. Toothless spat Ziggerastica onto the floor. Only j-j-joking, he said.

But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.

I enjoyed making them, and if it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids.

If you were a writer, you could be impressive in a cerebral sort of way, but if you were a musician, you got to be viscerally magical.