Queen Latifah Quotes

The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.

A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.

They will wrest 'dull words' from my cold dead hands.

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.

The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that’s what the mind is for.

Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it because Fantasy is a genre that asks, "What if...?" That's my favorite question.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

I think it's better to have ideas.

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your brain. It's about having an interest in experimenting musically, perhaps touching on several different genres of music. No doubt, the most important tool is the mind. It's the willingness to experiment freely.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

Doing something different, doing something original is always fun because there is a lot of creativity that comes with it.