Quotes About Creativity

I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.

You have to do what you love to do not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they're informed by your imagination.

There are two kinds of talents man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent you just touch it up once in a while.

Great literary works are not measured by the number of words, but by the impact they create.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.

I got to work with Rachel Dratch, and she just had such a funny, roll-with-it attitude when she would approach the stage and could turn anything into a gem.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

There is a lack of humor in fashion. To me, it's always been the fun, cool industry to work in, and I always wanted people to be on my side and see how much fun we really have behind the scenes.

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'

It doesn't matter at all for me that I work in hospital or anywhere with limited space. Every day, I'm creating new works with all my might.

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.

When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.