I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.
Frank OceanEvery day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Thomas CarlyleThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George EliotKeep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore RooseveltThere’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.
Paul AusterLife begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul SartreCourage is knowing what not to fear.
PlatoThere’s no formula.
J. K. RowlingI only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.
Charles BukowskiWithout freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert CamusFrom things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
Ernest HemingwayI read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.
Alice MunroEfforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. KennedyA fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
Haruki MurakamiBeing a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will RogersI’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.
Taylor SwiftIf you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Ray BradburyRomantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Oscar WildeWords without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert HooverI spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
Brene BrownI really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.
Paul AusterI stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.
Dr. SeussGrowing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.
Lando NorrisI respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.
Frank OceanSteven Spielberg was my childhood hero.
RihannaWhen I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.
Taylor SwiftHe is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John RuskinDesign is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve JobsI want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.
Frank OceanOne must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPassions are the gales of life.
Alexander PopeIf you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady GagaLife can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
John C. MaxwellTo live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor DostoevskyAstronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
PlatoI don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
Ray BradburyLiterature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
Oscar WildeMusic helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.
RihannaThe world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand RussellI dwell in possibility.
Emily DickinsonI didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
EminemLike anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
Stephen KingMy heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
BonoFor me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
Alice WalkerMy dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.
Russell M. NelsonThat is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.
Kurt VonnegutWriting, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac AsimovThere’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.
Ray BradburyIf one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIt’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.
EminemI just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.
Clint EastwoodI feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.
Steven WrightSubstitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark TwainPeople like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
Brian EnoMen admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
J. K. RowlingShow me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou HoltzFor me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.
DJ KhaledEverybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
Maya AngelouThere is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
John Muir