Quotes About Creativity

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

At first the kid kicking the back of my airplane seat was enraging. Then I imagined it was a broken massage chair and I kinda liked it.

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.

I also try to think of ways to articulate the joke more economically.

Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.

When you're in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can't think outside the box.

When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.

To write a novel, you need an iron butt.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are!

Roses are red Violets are blueI don't go on this accountSo go away SHOO!

Street performances?""A little singing. A little martial arts. Some interpretive dance.""Wow.""I know! The Portuguese have taste.

Opposable thumbs are overrated.

My motto for fashion: If you can't afford to make an elegant statement, make a ridiculous one.

We're authors. We're more than a little unstable.

I'm not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga's "Poker Face"]

Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.

I write to express and I shop to destress

The majority of boys think the highest form of creativity is weeing a pattern into snow.