Quotes About Creativity

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.

Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

My work is just a hobby. No, I wouldn't want to do it professionally. It's too hard. Deadlines are no fun. But I can sit and tweak all night and not worry about time.

There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.

I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

I would love to work with the artisans and take it to another dimension, the same way I did in Haiti.

I really do work in solitude.

I hate when any rapper would just use "Rapper X" because "Rapper X" is hot at the time and put them on the record. That's not how I do my thing. I work with my friends and people I consider fam.