Creative Quotes
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I think I'm always writing, and I'm always working, and I'm always trying to be creative. It's just something that I do all the time. I watch TV, and I'll play guitar.
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You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
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Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.
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I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, I would say.
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You can only feel creative when there is joy. When there is a sense of passion.
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There is something special when creative people get together.
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We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.
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I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to the creative energies and then that tends to get things going.
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My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having to be a director?" But it's hard to be around my dad and not be curious about filmmaking, because he thinks it's the ultimate medium.
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I think there's a certain magic that comes from being creative.
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The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.
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The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.
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How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.
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I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.
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Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.
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What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.
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I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.
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When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working...And this tool is best suited to the reality of what life is, because life is not just logical-it is also emotional.
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I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.
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I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.
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Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.
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What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods - even extended ones - of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?
