Millard Drexler Quotes

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

I've always known from a young age that creativity is natural.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

All children have creative power.

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

I love to be creative.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I believe in creative work.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.