Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights.

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they...

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company...

Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.

When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them a happy ending. God, the Almighty has created infinite human beings till...

How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the psychiatrist's couch or even the lovers' bed. You see the soul, pinned and wriggling on the...

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people's children in their body for money.

You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.

She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.

You will have the grace of writing, when you boldly begin to write your first sentences.

Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths.

Always think in circles to get your ideas around

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

Find a right and a beautiful idea

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler.

what you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations

Art is love made public.

Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ― Pablo Picasso

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.