Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.
A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence.
If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Others...
The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized...
Do what no one else can do and you will become what no one else can become.
Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations
Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.
If you don't fit into a box you can always try to fit into a circle.
If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
People who copy you will always be one step behind.
The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.
If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
Photographers don't take pictures. They create images.
Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.
If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own
Music is a writer's heartbeat.
All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully