Quotes About Creativity

Berenice's drawing was good. It had been done in a kind of painstaking fury, and depicted a creature with a black hole for a face. This creature was moving forward with its shoulders hunched. Its arms were long scalloped wings, like those on a bat. They began near its neck and dragged on the ground on either side, a prop or perhaps a hindrance for the vague, boneless body.

It's a beautiful thought, to meet a writer only in her books.

I wish I was more Moomin-minded.

But Snufkin took out his mouth-organ and played his gayest adventure-song (not just-the-right-sized adventure, but a terrific one) about rescues and surprises and sunshine.

Je moet dingen nooit herhalen. Dat zou een verkeerd einde zijn.

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Master of Cake?

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

Like all your fellow human beings, you are designed to be incapable of starting with a clean sheet of paper.

It's not that human beings are resisting. Its that they do not have the capacity to start from a clean sheet of paper.

But you can invent a future that is not based on the past and is unrelated to the past.

Philip Amato, Hubert Dreyfus, Charles Wesley Emerson, Werner Erhard, Fernando Flores, Buckminster Fuller, Michael Goldstein, Martin Heidegger, Joan Holmes, Randy MacNamara, Jim Selman, William Shakespeare, and Constantine Stanislavsky.

There are ways of entering the dream / The way a painter enters a studio: / To spill.

A poem can lie.)

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

A YOUNG COMPUTER ENGINEER, known to be one of the most skillful in Westborough's basement, said he had a fantasy about a better job than his. In it, he goes to work as a janitor for a computer company whose designs leave much to be desired. There, at night, disguised by mop and broom, he sneaks into the offices of the company's engineers and corrects the designs on their blackboards and desks.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

Acceptance does not mean surrender. It does not mean resignation. Acceptance means I am finally available to the entire spectrum of creative responses.