Quotes About Creativity

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

The gap between most people's capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

f]or most people, construction is tight, concentrated, bunchy, whereas vandalism offers release; you have to be quite an artist to give positive expression to abandon.

It's just, people throwing around fashionable lingo think they're so hip and imaginative. But you can't be hip and imaginative. You can be unhip and imaginative, or hip and conformist.

I believe the impulse to write comes out of a failure to communicate by any other means.

Language is alive, and you can't put it in the freezer. But

Por eso no tenía paciencia para con la descabellada distinción entre arte y artesanía que ponía a esta última en situación de desventaja desde un punto de vista comercial. Una jarra de barro para agua no valía prácticamente nada, pero si tenía un agujero en el fondo y era «arte», se podía pedir por ella un ojo de la cara. ¿No era una putada?

We fiction writers have to preserve the right to wear many hats – including sombreros.

At last she got it: concept is incidental; execution is all.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.

Overall, books and art were a safer escape from reality than sleep.

She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The world held in the pages of history felt like the real world, and the present day an illusion she had to suffer through until she could escape back into the pages of a book.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

Will and I are thinking about writing a movie," Ben said. "It's called Theater Closed for Repairs.

You want a story? Go buy yourself a magazine.