I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
Marilyn Hacker

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
Marilyn Hacker

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
Oscar de la Renta

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
Missy Elliot

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
Missy Elliot

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
Paul Simon

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Matthew Arnold

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.
Lester Bangs

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
Kenzo Tange

The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
Maynard James Keenan

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.
Charlton Heston

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
Maya Lin

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Clare Boothe Luce

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
David Herbert Lawrence

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
Steve Ballmer

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Jeanette Winterson

As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.
Sarah Michelle Gellar