Quotes About Creativity

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

I always suspend logic for emotion. If it feels real, or it feels like what I'm going for, we should abandon reality a little bit and go for that. I'm not a documentarian. We're not trying to shoot things for naturalism.

Children don't have to suspend disbelief like adults do... their brains can take in whatever crazy magical ideas you throw at them.

I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

So long as you tell a story that falls within the fairly generous boundaries of the suspense novel, you're free to make the novel as good as you can. You're allowed to challenge the reader. You can experiment with voice and style.

I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I just knew I'd never been happy in school, and I had this strong suspicion I'd be happy doing other things.

I'm an actor, so I think without a character to play, a story to tell, a song to sing... there's some suspicion that there's no 'there' there. Like, if I were to just strip down and present myself, I think I'd sort of just... disappear.

I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

If we started thinking, 'Why's this funny?' we might start incorporating rules into it. I'd be suspicious that it would change the nature of what we do.

I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.

The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.