Quotes about Creativity

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.

Forbidden things are open to the imagination.

What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food!

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Opening up their sack, the children chorus, "Oh Snowman, what have we found?" They lift out the objects, hold them up as if offering them for sale: a hubcap, a piano key, a chunk of pale-green pop bottle smoothed by the ocean. A plastic BlyssPluss container, empty; a ChickieNobs Bucket O'Nubbins, ditto. A computer mouse, or the busted remains of one, with a long wiry tail.

It was a wicked game. "Homer," says Snowman, making his way through the dripping-wet vegetation. "The Divine Comedy. Greek statuary. Aqueducts. Paradise Lost. Mozart's music. Shakespeare, complete works. The Brontës. Tolstoy. The Pearl Mosque. Chartres Cathedral. Bach. Rembrandt. Verdi. Joyce. Penicillin. Keats. Turner. Heart transplants. Polio vaccine. Berlioz. Baudelaire. Bartok. Yeats. Woolf.