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Creativity Quotes
"I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality."
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"I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal."
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"I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'"
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"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed, but a thing created is loved before it exists."
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"When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen."
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"We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement."
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"Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them."
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"The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years."
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"Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame."
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"If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything."
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"A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on."
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"Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head."
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"I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film."
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"The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life."
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"I am just trying to find a way to make pictures."
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"When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'."
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"Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood."
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"In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work."
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"Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing."
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"Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose."
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"The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship."
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"I think the first draft is so challenging because that elusive BALANCE is so challenging."
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"A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."
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"You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words."
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"Our imagination goes ahead of us, bringing our yesterday's imagings into present realities."
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"To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find."
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"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore."
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"The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences."
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"You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy."
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"When you can inspire a muse, you've got it going on."
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"That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all."
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"The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account."
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"I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!"
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"Explore the power of a beautiful wonder."
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"For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates."
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"It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans."
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"An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason."
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"If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities."
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"You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box."
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"As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances."
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"The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic."
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"Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas."
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"The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect."
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"I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable."
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"I've decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I've been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head."
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"Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless."
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"If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all."
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"Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood. The moment it tries to be anything else it becomes cheap, puerile, and unconvincing. Prime emphasis should be given to subtle suggestion - imperceptible hints and touches of selective associative detail which express shadings of mood and build up a vague illusion of the strange reality of the unreal. Avoid bald catalogues of incredible happenings which can have no substance or meaning apart from a sustaining cloud of colour and symbolism."
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"It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be."
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"The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow."
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