Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

There's always one more way to do something-- your way.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Be a creator, not a reactor.

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

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.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

You have to create something from nothing.

I've always had a love for making things my own.

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.