Carrie Vaughn Quotes

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

I like to try and be outside of the box or do things that other people aren't doing.

It's important to do something outside the box, and maybe that'll inspire people do also do something outside the box.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.