Quotes About Creativity

Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.

Writers usually don't get to pick our own covers. I know it's surprising to hear that.

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

I hope I'm always surprising people, and I hope I'm always surprising myself.

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

At the end of the day, the job is to tell the story that you promised to tell and do it in the most entertaining and perhaps surprising way you can think of.

I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling with musical language seems to me the highest achievement.

On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up.

At its best, alt comedy can be challenging, surprising, and innovative. And at its worst, alt comics think that being awkward.com/FAQS is a substitution for punchlines.

The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to anyone, and it's not surprising to me either, but knowing this, feeling this, definitely made writing my second book harder.

I have a long list of how people call me: 'The Prince of Design,' 'Beethoven of Design,' 'the Dutch Prince of Design' and the list goes on and on and on... and also the 'Lady Gaga of Design!' I am fine with it. I think she is an amazing character who has innovated the music scene and is respected by so many people; she is surprising.

Innovation, surprising people and creating a sense of wonder is what consumers want.

Sometimes surprising an actor in a good way like that can actually create a response you're not expecting.

I want to do something very surprising next. I don't know what that is - something that has a high degree of risk.

So many things influence me in one way or another. Some might be surprising, but that's OK.

I like clothes that feel fresh and surprising.

As a kid, I remember my mother always experimenting with bizarre combinations of food such as gulab jamun and pickle! Surprisingly, many years down the line, I have adapted the same.

'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

Surprisingly, dialogues haven't been a problem for me. Even in 'Savyasachi,' it was easy.

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

I find it remarkable. It's surreal for me that I've gotten to work with so many people who are not only great filmmakers but whose films have had such a direct effect on me.

The idea of my fashion shows is that you can't understand where you are; it's something surreal.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.