Quotes About Creativity

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

It's very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience - and having an audience that's aware of what you do and expects you to do things that they like. It can make things difficult.

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

Film is a strange thing.

I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always a novel around. The strange thing was that after 'Remember Me,' there wasn't.

Becoming a musician is a strange thing. It's not all cupcakes and ice cream. You're trying to master an instrument, and you sometimes can't tell if you're getting better. You love it, but you also hate it.

Acting is a very strange thing. It isn't about trying to feel, for me, it is about thinking.

I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.

One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.

My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.