Quotes About Creativity

For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

There was never any strain, because it becomes a strain only if you don't love what you are doing. I loved every moment of making these films.

My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

When I was working on the first 'Dark Souls' - as far back as 'Demon's Souls,' actually - I didn't expect the player community to come up with speedrun contests or any of the strange new ways to play the games.

I have lots of strange ideas in the back of my mind.

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.

We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely normal.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.