Creative work Quote by Maria Konnikova

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

— Eli Roth

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You…

— Ira Glass

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

— Zoey Deutch

I have the kind of brain that works better with a lot of information and I think that's not unusual in the arts.

— Jerrika Hinton

My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be…

— Burton Silverman

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at…

— Michael Morpurgo

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

— Brian Selznick

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

— David McCullough

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

— Toni Morrison