Hannah Gadsby Quotes

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

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

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

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

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

I've never gotten a good idea while checking Twitter or shopping.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

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.

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.

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.'

I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

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

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.