Quotes About Creativity

I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans - Wintermute

one can't really enjoy what science fiction does without being able to recognize the point at which the imaginary lifts off from the known.

You are the artiste of the slightly funny deal.

It was sometimes best, when you came to the mystery that was art, to come as a child. The child saw things that were too evident, too obvious for the trained eye.

Far more creativity, today, goes into the marketing of products than into the products themselves, athletic shoes or feature films.

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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

Le più grandi idee sono le più semplici.

I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found that the imaginative world had pushed the real world right out of the way, and was literally more real.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

Las ideas más brillantes son siempre las más sencillas.

The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.

Le assemblee. Andiamo pazzi per le assemblee, vero? Una al giorno. Anche due volte al giorno. Stiamo lì a parlare. Scommetto che se suonassi la conchiglia in quest'istante, eccome se verrebbero, e di corsa. E allora, sapete, ce ne staremmo lì tutti compiti, e qualcuno proporrebbe di costruire un jet, o un sottomarino, o una televisione. Ad assemblea finita, lavorerebbero per cinque minuti e poi se ne andrebbero a zonzo, o a caccia.»

Hayat?n belli bir düzeni yoktur, Summers. Edebiyat?n kusuru da ona bir düzen vermeye kalkmas?d?r.

Words may, through the devotion, the skill, the passion, and the luck of writers prove to be the most powerful thing in the world.

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

May my hands fall from my wrists before I kill an artist like yourself, said the man in black. I would as soon destroy da Vinci. However—and here he clubbed Inigo's head with the butt of his sword—since I can't have you following me either, please understand that I hold you in the highest respect.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance

La vie imite l'art, l'art imite la vie; parfois je suis incapable de les distinguer.

I write out of revenge

So I would do the abridgement of the sequel and then do my own novel and ride off into the frigging sunset, thank you very much.