Quotes About Creativity

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

Only work with projects you love. That will make your creativity blend with your vitality, and the project will create itself.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess.

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.