Quotes About Creativity

It was great fun to think of myself as a doll I could bring to life.

In case she can't get what's in her head and her heart on the canvas. Maybe she's afraid of being afraid. That she'll be so paralyzed by fear she won't do a thing, she'll just stand there with her paintbrush, feeling like a fraud.

her grandfather used to say, "Never spoil a good story with the facts.

As her mum always says, one of the advantages of being an only child is that you have no trouble amusing yourself.

A pile of books filled her lap. They were all the books she'd ever written, including foreign language editions. The books were open at the top like cereal boxes. Frances dipped her hand into each book and pulled out great handfuls of words to scatter across the sky. 'Got one!' said Sol, from the back of the sleigh,

Never spoil a good story with the facts.

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh…

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy -- at least until we have become as clever as they are.

We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think that a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.

My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.

No one ever expects poetry to sell.

Theres no keepin up with the brother man I can spell my name in burnt rubber.

I feel caged in my mind, its like my flow doin time. I goes crazy inside but when it comes out its fine.

Im a new song and youre just a remix.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.