Quotes about Creativity

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.

I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

A man who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes his work with the assurance of success magnetizes his condition. He draws to himself the creative powers of the universe.