Quotes About Creativity

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

You want to have pressure and tell stories that you find a real reason to tell, aside from any business reason. If business is your only reason, that always goes badly.

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

The kind of stories I like often comes from debutant directors.

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell.

One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

I'm grateful for being able to explore different avenues of my writing, whether it be music or stories, and it have an audience.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

My little book of stories, 'Souls in the Twiligh,' may have to stand in for all the other things I have wanted to write in my retirement.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.