Quotes About Creativity

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

I have some good stories yet to tell.

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

The best defense is a good story.

When you realize there are geniuses out there and you'd be a journeyman... that's not good enough. I'd rather be the person helping those who are one in a billion get their vision out.

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see it.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

I have loads of stuff that never came out because I really don't think it's good enough.