Quotes About Creation

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I think anyone who creates anything, whether it's yourself as a writer, anyone - when you finish something, it's gone from being just your thing and it's out there, it's a great release.

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect.

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.

I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.

The laws of literary creation are unique; they don't change, and they are the same for everyone everywhere. I mean that you can tell a story that covers three hours of human life or three centuries - it comes to the same thing. Each writer who creates something authentic in a natural way instinctively also creates the technique that suits him.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

As an actor, I give 60 days to act in a film, but the writer takes nearly two to three years to create a story.

So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.

The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.