Quotes About Creativity

A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first.

Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

I dream for a living.

I write for Reader's Digest. It's not hard. All you do is copy out an article and mail it in again.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

Let's have some new cliches.

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.

The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.