Gardner Dozois Quotes

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

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

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 just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert.

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.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.

When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.

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

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

This is my inception, I'm writing my dreams.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really want to find out what is going on-I'm writing for myself as a reader. It's like when you dream a dream. I want to know what's behind the door. If I navigate, it's from a place that's totally intuitive.