Nick Swardson Quotes

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

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to exercise because that's what people are going to want to see. That's what makes you different.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What also helps, though, is walking away from broken stuff. Not everything's going to work. Killing two years of your life trying to resuscitate a dying novel, I don't know. Why not just write a different one? You'll have more ideas. You can't help having ideas.

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I'm usually up until around 1 A.M. or 2 A.M. I don't get much sleep - and I prefer it that way, writing notes and coming up with different ideas for two to three hours between 11 P.M. and 1 A.M. or 2 A.M.

Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

For me, the most important thing is to keep everything moving very fast, so when I have an idea, I can realize it and make it audible as soon as possible.

My job is to put as many ideas out there as possible every day. Some of them will get traction, some won't - some of them shouldn't.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.