Quotes About Creativity

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.

Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.

As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.

I'm always doing something new. I took a fencing class - that was awesome. And I do a lot of my own athletic work or stunts.

My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing program, hosting readings, etc.

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

Some guys can do digital things where they make some tricks work, but I work on paper and I work with washes. You can't just change things afterwards. You have to get it right on the page.

The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.

For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.