H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.

At night I can write for hours.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

I live for the blank page.

Books come from within.

I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

I don't believe in writer's block.

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.

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.