Rodney Crowell Quotes

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

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

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting.

I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.

Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

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.

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

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.

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.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

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

I don't believe in writer's block.

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

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is.

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.