Allison Williams Quotes

I'm usually the one who creates most of my work. I have a lot of different ideas that I want to do, so I'm always like, 'Get on it, girl.'

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You have to be active and make things.

I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.

The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.

Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else.

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.

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 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.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.