Quotes About Creativity

Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer!

Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it does, I'll keep making it.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.

If only art were as rare as good taste.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

When things get tough... Make good art.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

Zee said, grumpily, "Liebling, this is not a good idea." "Zee," I told him, "I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.