Quotes about Creativity
A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, 'Wow.'
— Frank Peretti
I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.
— Diane von Furstenberg
I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.
— Ernest Hemingway
I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.
— Dolly Parton
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
— Samuel Johnson
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
— Thomas Merton
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
— Ernest Hemingway
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
— Ernest Hemingway
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
— Ernest Hemingway
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
— Paulo Coelho
I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.
— Beverly Lewis