T. C. Boyle Quotes

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

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

We like to challenge ourselves, and having new material and presenting it to the world is fun and exciting and fresh.

It's very difficult to be original.

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

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 take references from the past and flip them.

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 create something you must be something.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I always want to remain inspired.

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

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

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

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

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.