Quotes about Creativity

I've been in the industry for a really long time now and I think that's always been the nice thing about The Saturdays, we've all been allowed to do our own thing.

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

Writing for the gallery is something that a writer must resist no matter who he is. You know the writers that are writing for their audience because they write the same book over and over again with the sort of cute things their readership likes. Serious writers write things that compel them, new challenges, new situations, and a new landscape that they have not been in before.

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives...

Necessity remains the mother of invention.

In the early stage, managers are puzzle solvers, not number crunchers.

Put simply, innovative thinkers connect fields, problems, or ideas that others find unrelated.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.