Phil Elverum Quotes

I don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

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.

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.

There's always something that I will always find to do, because I just enjoy working so much. There's always something on the horizon; it really comes down to scheduling and making it all happen.

When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.

I have to focus and keep things together as much as anyone with a real job... It's just that I know, from experience, that the more fun I have doing something that the more successful it will be.

I'm someone who wants to do well at their job. I am completely in what I am doing.

I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

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

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.