Quotes About Creativity

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

Blew it up his nose. That woman should have cards printed: 'Dr. Evan Wilson, Imaginative Medicine a Specialty.

Foot," she said in a matching torrent of Jannisetti curses, "Heel. Sole. Toes, with green toenail polish!

We who work in fantasy today take the threads from all the story tellers of the past. From the ancient, many colored threads we work to weave a new cloth. If the landscape, the characters, and the creatures here call up the old tales told the beside the fire, when stories went from mouth to ear instead of page to eye then I have woven well and the dreamer continues to dream.

The real dragon haunted my head and heart.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

The Olwyn force wins only when the writer bows to its power and puts down his pen.

Keep your sense of humor, and approach new experiences with a childlike sense of wonder. Allow your creativity to flourish and accept the mistakes that will inevitably come. Embrace unfamiliarity and give yourself the grace to find your footing.

Old writers never die, they just decom-prose!

Janet Tashjian

When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

You can't rush your muse. They don't punch time clocks.

They whisper: no little man from Customs and Immigration stands at the doors of memory or imagination demanding to see your passport. No arts bureaucrat or ComLit satrap can stamp OzLit, CanLit, FemLit, MigrantLit, or Displaced Person on your visa.

I have a very vivid imagination.

If God has given us the gift of creativity, 'much is required' in the way of our using it to his glory.

Friedrich desiderò ardentemente Clara, a prescindere dal suo sesso. Prima ancora di sapere cos'era, chi era, sapeva quello che sarebbe stata: la più grande pianista che lui potesse plasmare

Please excuse my little sister. She's got quite an imagination. Annie, you're just jealous because I come up with great stories and you're so boring.

What would be the purpose of having an imagination and not using it?

Continue to wrap these wires around the circle of the bead, applying pressure on the wire. Ensure that each of the new layers is wrapped beneath the previous layer.

Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.