Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Tim Olyphant is a machine. He never stops thinking and being creative.

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.