Kelley Armstrong Quotes

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

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

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

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

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

My creative juices flow seasonally.

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

I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.

Sometimes you don't really know what you're going to write about. I mean, there's times where you get into a writing room and it's a complete flop. And then there's times where you get to a writing room and you're like, 'Oh, I'm just on a roll.'

I don't know where the ideas come from, and it's terrifying. They seem to be absolute flukes. When I was in my 20s, I'd walk around with a notebook all the time and make sure I wrote down anything that occurred to me. Now I'm just hoping that some sort of event will descend on me.

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's just not where things are at right now, and it's just a matter of time until there's something going on where I feel compelled to write.

When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can't just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed - which is why it's great to have voice recorders on your phone!

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

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

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

The magic happens in the creative studios. But sometimes you're inspired when you're removed from it a little bit. That's when the juice starts to percolate.