Quotes About Creativity

The creative writing program would replicate the spirit of communal endeavor and mutual influence found in the Paris and Greenwich Village café scenes of an earlier era, but Nabokov was not one for that sort of esprit de corps.

I always thought being a writer was the highest calling there was. Don't you?" - author Mark Merlis

I always wondered why nobody did it before me. I mean, all those comic book movies and television shows, you'd think at least one eccentric loner would have stitched himself a costume.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

Sure, I could give advice I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

After she went to school, they taught her the correct way to draw, and all the life went out of her art.

He shows, however accidentally, that the devices and conventions we have learned to respond to do not necessarily solve or even do anything. More than any artist I can think of, Wiseau proves Northrop Frye's belief that all conventions are, at heart, insane.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

It bears remembering that the purpose of a free press, like the purpose of free speech, is to nurture the mind, communicate ideas, challenge ideologies, share notions, inspire creativity, and advocate and reinforce America's founding principles—that is, to contribute to a vigorous, productive, healthy, and happy individual and to a well-functioning civil society and republic.

bears remembering that the purpose of a free press, like the purpose of free speech, is to nurture the mind, communicate ideas, challenge ideologies, share notions, inspire creativity, and advocate and reinforce America's founding principles—that is, to contribute to a vigorous, productive, healthy, and happy individual and to a well-functioning civil society and republic.

If your imagination is superior to the rules, go beyond the rules.

I don't like to talk about my songs. It's self-defeating, it is the antithesis of what a songwriter wants to do. He writes a song so he doesn't have to talk about it.

Pictures must be miraculous.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

Creative imagination is a mystery. If you let it flow, it will happen, & you won't know how the idea came to you. It will just materialize.

A writer's refuge is imagination. Therein lies the ability to create a new world and bring order to chaos.

If you're a writer, you're not a short order cook. Forget what people want. Write what you want to write, be true to yourself

Have the courage to write a lousy first draft.

When you write, bleed copiously from an open wound. Write from the depths of your heart.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

Reading is to an author as listening to music is to a composer. There's music in the words.

If you write for money or fame you will be disappointed. If you do so for the love of it, you will be rich in satisfaction.

The irony of writing is that it's a solitary profession in which the lone writer tries to address universal human concerns.

If you write a novel a great adventure awaits you. And like any strange and wondrous journey, there will be uncertainty, even fear. Just keep going