Quotes About Creativity

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.

I tend to scare myself.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.

I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a page of prose-even bad prose-that is eternal.

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

When one writes, there's the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.