Yani Tseng Quotes

When I'm inspired, I know I can get things done.

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

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

On a good day I write, all day.

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.

I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee - I find I can get a lot done that way.

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

I'm a huge believer in visualizing achieving the task before it happens.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

My garage/office is strewn with Post-its, cards, folders, notebooks, yoga mats and multicoloured pens, all purchased in a quest to unlock a magic way of working that will ensure my ascension to next-level creativity.

I've had lots of wonderful people help motivate me over the years to work hard and write.

Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.