Quotes About Creativity

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

Just as person's likes, dislikes, and fears are relevant to creating an interesting character for characters to interact with, changelings can tell a lot about someone by interacting with their dreams. Thus, the Storyteller is advised to jot down a few quick ideas about the nature of a characters dreams.

Coldplay's ultimately show-stopping opus "Fix You" might never have seen the light of day had Chris given up and caved in when Guy politely asked of him one morning: "So, 'tears stream down your face, and AAAAH.' What's that all about, then?

Words are powerful, so add visually descriptive adjectives to the story.

Visualization often helps with this. So, close your eyes for a moment and imagine being in the setting you want to share your story, and

Some paintings were no more than a single perfect brushstroke that conjured a simple yet breathtaking fish or stalk of bamnoo. Clay sculptures in various states of completion lined shelves at the far end of the gallery.

You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, August Derleth, William Hope Hodgson, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith

I'm saying people can be real creative when it comes to ducking responsibility.

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

I have a lot of problems with fifteen-minute jazz-funk jams as well. I don't care about instrumental prowess. I don't care about quick-thinking improvisational skill. At all. I'm a songwriter and I'm familiar with Cage and I couldn't really care about what notes people can think of quickly. It doesn't interest me and I'm astounded that it interests other people still. Improvisation is what you do in the process of making something better.

So I was sitting behind the console looking at all these bands and thinking, "Most of the lyrics these guys are singing are pretty dreadful. I know I can do better than that." But I didn't want to be the guy singing, so I came up with this idea: maybe what I'll do is find a band and write the material, and they'll produce the material and I'll promote the band out there doing my songs.

I wrote a book under a pen name, Bic.

Sometimes she feels like a third gender- preferring primary colors to pastels, the radio to singing. At least she's all mermaid: never gets tired of swimming, hates the thought of socks. -from "The Straight Forward Mermaid

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.

Such a price The Gods exact for song; To become what we sing.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

The seeds of god-like power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.