In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.