Martha Stewart Quotes

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

I need to be creative all the time.

I get inspired by everything - everything that is around me.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

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!

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

I have fantastic ideas.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

Imagination is the air of mind.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.