Lynn Abbey Quotes

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

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.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

At night I can write for hours.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

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.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

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.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.