James Acaster Quotes

When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming in the pool with my kids and just think, "Can't forget that one." Then there's the more organized side of the brain, which is when I choose to work on them. I've learned through a bunch of mentors how to demarcate the different times for your writing process. I keep multiple projects going at once and there's a time when no matter what you're doing, you have to stop and write it because it's coming.

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

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

I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

I love making up titles.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

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?

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

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.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

I don't believe in writer's block.