Barry Mann Quotes

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Talent works, genius creates.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.