artistic inception Quotes

I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

It begins, as most things begin, with a song.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say that 80% of the time, that's the successful stuff. It's the other stuff I have to work for to get right, and sometimes it doesn't work out, but the music is always the beginning. So I'm still a music journalist.

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.