Quotes About Creativity

I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

It was raining a motherfucker. It was raining a Dostoyevsky novel. It was raining a Kurosawa film. It was raining a Trout Mask Repilca.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

So what? All writers are lunatics!

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power. ("Mind Over Murder")

The story thread suddenly dropped in a hopeless snarl, just as he was about to get it through the needle's eye of the first line.

L'originalità assoluta non esiste; l'originalità relativa è l'unica alla quale possiamo aspirare. Ma all'interno di questa possibilità relativa c'è la nozione esatta di originalità, ovvero, ciò che conta è che la somma di tutte quelle influenze, quella specie di brodo culturale e vitale dal quale proviene uno scrittore, si traduce in una nuova apertura, in una nuova possibilità, in una nuova visione.

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

She knew her artwork reflected a side of her personality she didn't typically let out. The side that wasn't completely concerned with getting everything right. In a way, art gave her a chance to play.

She lived on purpose -- like she used every color in the crayon box. The big box, too, with the built-in sharpener.