Creative Acceptance Quotes

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is.

It took me a long time to accept the idea that the guitar can take the place of a singer.

Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

I've always had a good imagination. If I saw a sitcom, and everything was made out of cheese, I wouldn't go 'What?' I wouldn't get angry. I'd think, 'Right, OK, all cheese? Amazing.'

Is it sad that Storm Corrosion needs to be explained to people before they can accept it? I don't think it's sad; I think it's inevitable. I think it's just human nature.

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

A large part of the creative process is tolerating the gap between the glorious image you had in your mind and the sad thing you've just made.

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.

I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.