Steven Wright Quotes

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

My lab is the place where I put my brain out on my fingers.

The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it's the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

My inspiration for new products comes from moments in my life or what's happening around me.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling of my life with art but a divine accident.

There is something special when creative people get together.

We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.

Everything I experience in life, I put through the sausage-maker that is comedy, and then try to make it funny for others. Whether that is healthy or not remains to be seen.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

Every idea that comes to mind I execute, or I look for outlets to put out ideas.

The power of imagination is infinite.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

Writing is investigation.

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

Creativity is something that is forever.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that, it's good to be exploring other stuff as well.

The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you're starting to see things being made flesh, and you're able to respond to that flesh, that's really exciting.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

In order to get new things to rap about, you've gotta live.