Quotes About Creativity

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

People should be happy to see you when you show up to a club because you're a good person. And stop caring about what the industry is "looking for". Just say what you think is funny. .

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.