Jim Lee Quotes

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for writer's block, but it's actually just part one of a long process.

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

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

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

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

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

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.

If I get writer's block - this is going to sound funny - I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I'm cleaning my brain as well as my body.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative process, it's a mystery to me! Characters often just walk on the page, and I wait to see what they do and say while I'm writing them.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!