Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

I've never had writer's block.

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

I'm not really worried about writer's block.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

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

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.

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

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

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 don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

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 don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days.

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

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

It may be that learning to do creative work of any kind - not just direct imagery exercises - may help combat writer's block.

I remember trying to write at 1, 1:30 A.M., and just sort of falling asleep. And I think that was actually a good creative state for weird ideas. I shifted to a morning schedule once I had two kids, and I still found that if I slept badly, I actually had better ideas.