persistent creativity Quotes

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

I've always kept writing. There's never been a moment where I went through a spell where I just don't write.

To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.

It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.

To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.

It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

I began drawing probably when I was - around the same time everybody else puts a mark on a piece of paper with a crayon - when I was two, probably. The difference between me and everybody else is, I kept doing it for the rest of my life; there was something very satisfying about that.

I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

Anything that's going to continue to keep you out there as an artist, you've got to appreciate and embrace it.

The shift for me, after spending a long time trying to take existing projects and bring them to fruition as a director for hire, is going back to where I started as a self-generating director. After trying and failing to get so many things made, I have decided that you've just got to do something you really, really love.