Quotes About Creativity

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us

Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.

I'm a writer, I said. I like long stories.

because for me, Harry Potter is a Taco Bell 7-Layer Burrito.

And I began writing, to console myself in my solitude and to ease the passing of time.

D. H. Lawrence, Malcolm Lowry, and Aldous Huxley—all visitors, inspired in their writing by their immersion in Oaxaca—would recognize

Fiction give life to places in expressive ways that no history book can begin to suggest.

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

Inspiration is the most important part of our digital strategy.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.

Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work.

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, 'No, I'm not interested.' I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: 'the book is so much better than the film.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could…

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

No life is complete without a touch of madness.

Dreamers can't be tamed.

One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own initery, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.