Quotes About Writing Creatively

#1. Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

Ashim Shanker

#2. Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.

Stanley Schmidt

#3. It was all right to hope and noble to strive, but in the end it was doom alone which would count.

Stephen King

#4. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ashley Montagu

#6. It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.

Byron Katie

#7. I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.

George Mastras

#8. O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time

Bill Hayes

#9. The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Avicenna

#10. Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

BD Wong

#11. Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

Robert Reed

#12. Wormwood Echoed.
She Had Only To Listen.
And She Was Not Fucking Ready.
Because in her heart,
she knew she might
never come back.

Laken Cane

#13. For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction, the edges of reality must be blurred creatively to keep the reader's interest.

A.K. Wallace

#14. I don't get paid like a person that everyone knows, but I get paid so much more in so many ways.

Esai Morales

#15. People get upset when you say you kill people. Fair enough.

Adam Sternbergh

#16. Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed

Big Sean

#17. His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.

Charlaine Harris

#18. If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.

Li Peng

#19. Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement - the art of living.

H.E. Davey

#20. We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

Luc De Clapiers

#21. When I use weed creatively, I'm much better at drawing or making something or playing music. But what I do for a living is mostly performing as an actor or writing, and for those things I need to have my faculties sharp.

Nick Offerman

#22. What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

John Connolly

#23. We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

Erich Maria Remarque

#24. I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see.

Avril Lavigne

#25. I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

Michael Jackson

#26. Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#27. The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst is that you alone own the criticism and blame.

Ron Houston

#28. I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.

Nicholas Stoller

#29. I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were a lot of choices - writing songs was king.

Jakob Dylan

#30. Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

Andrei Codrescu

#31. I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.

Dawn Angelique

#32. Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to be creatively. It changed me in that it was a new way of doing my creative process, and I realised how much I liked being among tall trees.

Morris Gleitzman

#33. There are certain guys that think they know hockey because they follow it on the Internet.

Paul Coffey

#34. Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

Holly Johnson

#35. I would be sad if it ended now. It's been the best job I've had by a long shot, especially creatively because the writing is so good. Every week I get the script and I laugh out loud and get excited for the different stuff we get to do.

Sarah Chalke