All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original. Samuel R.Delany
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. Virginia Woolf
Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met. Melissa Bank
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.Martin Luther King
I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here. Jeff Abbott
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. Doris Lessing
I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet. Judy Blume
I'm impressed with how the NBA, as a whole, is dressing so well. Guys are being very creative and having fun with it. Tony Parker
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.Tom Brady
In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist. Meg Cabot
It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental. Erwin McManus
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.Albert Einstein
Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out. Marilyn Monroe
Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same. Bill Toomey
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever. Michael Eric Dyson
Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write! Wendelin Van Draanen