Quotes About Creativity

If you're not writing, you're wronging.

Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already?

Adding kidney beans to his cottage cheese and pineapple was an act of bravery Dave had not intended.

Sherry Carroll is a real life Penny Lane and one wonders if she hasn't got Cameron Crowe or Lester Bangs hidden somewhere in her suburban basement.

They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers—just to upset the critics.

Don't be an artist. Be somebody's artist.

If we get a 3D printer at the office, the first thing I'm printing with it is a new 3D printer just for me!

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.

Poetry is a disease vector. Like malaria.

If your career doesn't work out, write a book about it.

I don't do 'black music, ' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

Writing is my life. Life is my hobby.

Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.

Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.

When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.

...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.

Writing something new is an effective way to get rid of writer's block. Or you can observe the people around you and fantasize like I do.

I'd like to THANK whoever saw a bunch of cherries and thought....HEY!! If I dry out a bunch of those berry seeds, call them "BEANS", smash them and add hot water, it will be AWESOME!

I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I'd never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.

What's my favorite part that I've written? That's like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly!

If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto

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There is no off position on the genius button.