Quotes About Creativity

Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.

I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.

My work should be seen as poetry.

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Crazy life fueled by crazy dreams...

People who judge you badly for sometimes acting crazy, insane, or just plain weird...are just jealous because their life is boring!

Log can be chopped up and be made into wood. Clay can be shaped to make pots. But it is the space that makes these useful. So we must find the space within us.

Some are dreamers, some are talented. You are both. May you achieve more success ahead. Congratulations on this success.

We're having creative differences. I'm creative, you're different.

If I want to hear the pitter patter of little feet, I'll put shoes on my cat.

If you want to be average, do what others do. If you want to be awesome, do what no one does.

People will know instinctively that someone who creates things is awesome.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

If my ceiling fan could hold my weight, I would never be bored again.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

We are all a little broken, but last time I checked, broken crayons still color the same.