Quotes About Creativity

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.

You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.