Quotes About Creativity

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to connect to my stories. I don't consciously think about age demographics when I'm working on my comics.

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.