Garry Trudeau Quotes

Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

If we ever have a problem, it's not comin' up with ideas. It's stoppin' us.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Imagination is the air of mind.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.