The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it’s robbed me of my mother, my wife, and everything that meant anything to me. It’s like a germ planted in the...

It’s not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It’s just a waste of energy.

Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit.” (Guardian interview 2006)

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

I create, therefore I am.

Deal resistance a death blow and make sweet love to your art all night long. Put on your fishnet thigh highs and your patent leather stilettos and your special occasion lingerie. Seduce the hell out...

In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

The mind is a universe, and it has the power to completely create any possibility.

Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful...

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries – the arts and humanities.

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark… my value unhangable.

Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.

I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the...

To be CREATIVE, you have to be CRAZY, not because you’re CRAZY or want others to become CRAZY, but because you must be CRAZY, before others become CRAZY for you.

When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Its funny to see how creativity is used to satiate a misplaced libido. How it shifts from an extension of who you are to a bait of what/how much you can get.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Without creativity you are nothing.

One reason that people have artist’s block is that they do not respect the law of dormancy in nature. Trees don’t produce fruit all year long, constantly. They have a point where they go dormant....

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music...

Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing...

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.

The most creative approach is often the simple approach.

I had a day when I was busy in the world, where the activity created a turmoil on the surface of my consciousness like waves on the surface of the ocean, which made it difficult...

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Saber fer les coses que no es volen fer ajuda a fer bé les coses que es volen fer

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.

courage in motion” toward your dreams.

Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer, for the very act of opening His Mouth is Movement, indeed the greatest...

After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state…I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid.

Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they live in a state of psychological distortion. It is his own self that each of them...

Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don’t out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

Perfection is not just about control. It’s also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence! Very few have it in them.

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kinds of artists, in the lectures of business speakers, engineers, and to...

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. You need to trust yourself, especially on a first draft, where amid the anxiety and self-doubt, there should...

Creativity follows uncertainty

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense...

And being different? That turned out to the best part of all. I found that with a little creativity, and a lot of dedication, any difference can be turned into something amazing. Our differences are...

(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) “have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us....

I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.

When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.

Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower,which must be cautiously cared forand protected,from the harsh elementsof “human weather.

In the absence of sleep, my restless nights have been fueled by my overactive imagination, weaving waking dreams onto the canvas of conception. Filling my head with lots of ideas waiting to be born into...