Raf Simons Quotes

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

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.

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

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 do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.

My mind starts to work creatively past 10 P.M. or 11 P.M. - all of a sudden there's silence and my head starts going.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

I believe in working with your morning brain - you have your coffee, and then maybe you'll start thinking about the grand plan and what's going to happen in the next arc, and then you write for a while, and then you get really dreamy, and over the course of the day or in the middle of the night, something comes, and you just throw it in!

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

Imagination is the air of mind.

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

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

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.