Dan Deacon Quotes

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

When I'm between projects, I keep a journal I call a 'thought log,' and it's my practice to write down whatever interests me.

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

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've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page have I thought through it fully.

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

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 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!

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

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.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

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

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 have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.

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.

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.