Quotes About Creativity

What I call bankruptcy of inventiveness is often the result of a failure to set aside the resources necessary to let invention happen. The principal resource needed for invention is slack. When companies can't invent, it's usually because their people are too damn busy.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

I've always believed that the most extraordinary results occur only when one feels unbound by any notion of constraint or limitation.

Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it into the story. I tell myself I'll worry about untangling it later. I'm glad no one sees my first drafts except for my poor editor and agent.

I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me.

I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me. But this has worked for me: Never memorizing a scene.

It would not occur to me to write a joke like, 'This would be great if I was more like Andrew Dice Clay.' It's not the voice I write in - which is largely an extension of the voice in my head that I think in.

It never occurred to me that I'd be a musician. I was just drunk on music, jamming with friends, chilling out with lot of music around.

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way.

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did.

Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on something. I love it, I need it, and so it never occurred to me to put writing on the back burner.

I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I'd even write a book, not ever having aspired to be a writer. It's something that never occurred to me - a bit like it never occurred to me to play guitar when I was young. I just thought it was out of my league.

I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.

Frank Ocean, he's the G.O.A.T.