Quotes About Creativity

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.

Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.

I really love listening to Hozier. He's great.

I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

I love making lists.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

Seeing how kids lit up when they were creating things made me think of what would be the ultimate platform for our imagination.

There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.

Movies are too literal.

I don't ever get too literal.

When I was in high school, I was so in love - as I should have been - with the performance aspect of theater and just the literal act of performing.

I literally cannot work without music.

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits.

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.