Quotes About Creativity

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

When I play guitar, it's automatic. I don't try to do something; I just do it. And it's already so ingrained in what I do, I don't think about it. I don't try to do something - I just do it. And the more I do it that way, the more I surprise myself. And if I surprise myself, that's the best thing.

I don't like the idea of pre-meditated music. Things like free-styling, the element of surprise - I think people need to scale back and re-focus on making moments again.

When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

I discovered, to my surprise, that writing for live television made me a faster writer.

I have a lot of maneuvers in my back pocket, so to speak. And to me, the thing is to always surprise the audience so they're always seeing something new, and not just get stuck in the same rut.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

I always like to come with stuff people don't expect me to. I like the element of surprise.

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.