Quotes About Creation

It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.

I come from an era where you just build something. Me and Common built what we built from Chicago from scratch.

I could start a fire from scratch.

I didn't just sit down and write 'Summer In Kingston' from scratch; it came about from a bunch of songs I already had.

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a director and screenwriter, to create the environment in which all those moments will come together eventually.

I can't remember what my first script was.

I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.

I want to create and write scripted and unscripted shows, digital shows, stage shows.

Scripts don't get movies made.

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

I have some scripts, I'm putting a couple of projects together with people I want to work with. I think that's the most exciting part, when you can hopefully create your own content and find the people that you love that you get to work with.

You start out with scripts pre-written, with no specific actor in mind, so you've got to build a character on top of that foundation. It's not just lifting words off the page, it's constructing a history around them as well.

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.

Many of my sculptures take a long time to make.

I'm never not in the studio creating; it's like my second home.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

When I created Mary for the 'Batgirl' issue of 'Night of the Owls,' there was a lot of excitement at DC. Scott Snyder in particular was a champion for the character, bless him.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Creative people feel huge ownership of our content; we want everything to be done ourselves. But in book writing, there's a process: editors, PR people.