351 Quotes About Creative-process

When you're young artist, it's really important to like pay attention to what you're doing and be honest with yourself and in the creative proccess.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. Inventing plausible new realities is what the genre is all about. One starts from a hypothesis and then builds out the logic, adding detail and incident to give substance to imaginary structures. In that respect, science fiction and theology have much in common.

Beautiful things come together one stitch at a time.

Listen, there are other things in life besides the day-to-day, all of this is great but really, it's going nowhere... It seems like I don't have time to do anything. I'm stuck... I do a million things and nothing comes out...

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music—just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

I've had to keep defining and defending myself as a writer every single day of my adult life -- constantly reminding and re-reminding my soul and the cosmos that I'm very serious about the business of creative living, and that I will never stop creating, no matter what the outcome, and no matter how deep my anxieties and insecurities may be.

The creative process is lost in a toxic environment. The risk of staying is too great because in it you may never reach your full destiny.