Quotes about Creativity

She did her homework. She studied her industry, the people she'd love to work with, and learned creative ways to sell by finding common ground between herself and prospects that were "out of her league.

Was there ever a time where you felt totally in your groove? Where you created and did stuff just because it was fun without worrying about the outcome? Where you couldn't wait to wake up in the morning and go do your thing?

Another revealing exercise is visualization.

I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.

I went for years not finishing anything because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

I am nailed to the cross of my imagination.