creativity Quotes

I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable.

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.