Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
You can make anything by writing.
The only truth is music.
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.
You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.
We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
Creativity takes courage.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.