Quotes About Creativity

A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

When you're working with friends, unless the material is right, our friendship could end.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

You don't have to stay in your lane when it comes to friendship or ideas.

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with. He was my imaginary friend.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

Funny songs, that's my ticket. I can't remember when it started or why it started, it's just something that I NEEDED.

Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.