Quotes About Creativity

the more you stick to what is uniquely yours and the more authentic you are in what you do, the more interesting it is to others and the more marketable it is.

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.

The idea itself is the ten percent inspiration; the hammering it into a viable, successful, memorable story is the ninety percent perspiration that follows.

There's a saying: "Life is first draft". Means you pretty much make it up as you go along, and there's never a chance for a rewrite.

How could he even attempt it, after eight days and nights of bombing? And yet this is when he must write: now, in the lull between attacks...War made one do everything when one wasn't at all ready. Dying, yes, but also living.

What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator.

Yes but he is a man though, don't you see? You could knit one quicker than you can make one fit off-the-shelf.

Books lay on the floor in literary dunes.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Creativity is the auma of the universe, David. A good story, written with heart and feeling, can touch many people and raise their awareness of global issues.

singing the songs of the old masters. Fats Waller's 'Ain't That A Shame', Chuck Berry's

This sounded to me like a three-cocktail problem and there I was without so much as an olive!

And he didn't draw dog turds in the house style either. He drew the flies circling above too big, and gave them wings. Me, I preferred a few tiny little dots above a turd. That made it look less disgusting, but smellier at the same time.

I think I'm speaking for every husband when I saw that women's fashion really should incorporate more junk food. Ladies, dangle a nice cheese blintz around your neck, then see if your love life doesn't just take off.

Reverie allows us to imagine other possibilities than those which lie immediately before us, other worlds than those we inhabit.

Everybody plays electric guitar, thats why I decided to play bass!

Because if something is fun, more of it gets done!" -Luigi Lemoncello

Actually, it's a new word—one I invented and wrote down with my frindle!

Arturo Zamora. The Stars Beneath Our Feet.

art Sir William of Goat?

All children are born geniuses. The hard part is staying one once you grow up.

Chris Grabenstein

Could a make-believe sheriff chop off Billy's head with a make-believe sword?