Quotes About Creativity

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

I've been in some biennales, and some I haven't. I always like the idea of how you meet the curator, hang out, and figure out who you want to work with.

I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that same thing!

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

I work whenever I'm let.

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.