What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative. – Tracy Kidder
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is ‘write what you know,’ and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, ‘You can write about anything you can imagine.’ – Tom Robbins
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. – Salvatore Quasimodo
I think there’s something really freeing about improv, that it’s a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That’s really exciting and really frustrating, because it’s there and gone. – Tatiana Maslany
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up. – William Goldman
If you are creative enough to select the ideal vocation, you can win, win big time. The really brilliant millionaires are those who selected a vocation that they love, one that has few competitors but generates high profits. – Thomas J. Stanley
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology. – Stanislav Grof
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. – Vernor Vinge
The Internet has allowed a lot of access – people feel entitled to change the ending of games, for example. So there are a lot more voices coming at you all the time, which I think has its effect on creative decision making and possibly makes people more afraid to take risks. – Tim Schafer
For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications. – William Lipscomb
There’s probably a little more creative freedom in cable versus network, a little less of a committee looking over everyone’s shoulder, but it depends on the network; it depends on the show; it depends on who the head writer or show runner is and what track record they have. – Timothy Hutton
I’m a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors. – Sissy Spacek
I think I’m most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together. – Shonda Rhimes
Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much. – Scott Weiland
My father’s father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn’t do any writing – I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class. – Stephen Gaghan
There’s room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you’re trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn’t. – Tori Amos
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. – Susan Sontag
And then I met Jerry and he’s such a creative fiction writer, and I don’t know if there’s ever been a team put together the way we are – where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing. – Tim LaHaye
I don’t fight creativity. I don’t fight against not being creative. If I’m not being creative, I’m not forcing it. – Ziggy Marley
Once you become a producer, you’re really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don’t really know how it’s going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it. – Scott Cohen
What is amazing to me as an archaeologist is that the more and more I study, I realize we are resilient, we are creative, we are brilliant, and this is what makes us human, and that hasn’t changed since we’ve been human. – Sarah Parcak
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy. – Zadie Smith
I’m trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It’s popular music: it’s everything for everybody. – Theophilus London
Once something is memorable, it’s living and you’re using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society. – Yo-Yo Ma
All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it’s too hard to live here. It’s ridiculous how expensive it is. – Susan Choi
Music is one of the last elements in the creative process. It can and hopefully should tie a bow around an artistic concept, how a story moves forward, the pace of that storytelling. – Thomas Newman
I think one problem we’ve had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering. – Walter Isaacson
Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian’s Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England. – Sara Sheridan