Creative Process Quotes

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final s

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of m

When someone asks me what a song is about, it’s like, I feel like I might ruin it if you ask me that. I feel like I did my best to explain the song in the song on its own terms as a song.

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doin

[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing

A child s a special possession from God.

The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!?- You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!