Francisco Costa Quotes

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

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

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

Imagination needs to be fed.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

I love making up titles.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

I always write about what interests me.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.