Quotes About Creativity

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

I hate just showing up, hitting a mark, doing your work, and going home. It's very boring. But being part of the creation of the whole thing is very exciting.

I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.

I love clothes so much, I always have. It's awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.