Quotes About Creativity

Please World, just let me write in peace.

Thank you I say to whomever or whatever gave me such an ability to dream.

The best and worst of writing is that it could always be better.

The best artists are the greatest of criers.

The best of us all are the storytellers and the dreamchasers.

The cultures and arts of times are reflections of the people whom lived during those times.

The destruction of a creation to create isn't true creation.

The most skilled of writing always stems from that which is not so.

To be a writer is to gouge out one's mind, heart and soul and splatter them across the page for the world to judge.

To have imagination, is too to have substance.

To imagine is oh so better than to know, yet too, so very inferior.

[W]riting is a product of silence and solitude.

Beautiful… as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.

Poetry should be made by all and not by one.

If life gives you lemons, make some sort of fruity juice.

Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.

If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.

If I don't write it, they can't buy it.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.