Ernest Hemingway Quotes

The fact that it's hard to create an original British musical doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.