Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

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

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

I believe in working with your morning brain - you have your coffee, and then maybe you'll start thinking about the grand plan and what's going to happen in the next arc, and then you write for a while, and then you get really dreamy, and over the course of the day or in the middle of the night, something comes, and you just throw it in!

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

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.

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.

The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

You can't really think about more than one movie at a time. You're thinking about it consciously, and the subconscious is working too, and if you cram too much into your head, you don't get any ideas in the shower.

I don't believe in writer's block.

I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.