Melanie Laurent Quotes

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

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

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.