Nikki Grimes Quotes

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.

I like creation even if it is a bit difficult. It is always very exciting.

Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.

The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you're starting to see things being made flesh, and you're able to respond to that flesh, that's really exciting.

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

You can fix anything but a blank page.

I never think of the completed film, rather the adventure of what I'm about to live.

Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.