Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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.

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

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 go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!

You can't really think about more than one movie at a time. You're thinking about it consciously, and the subconscious is working too, and if you cram too much into your head, you don't get any ideas in the shower.

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything.

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

I usually write a lot. I don't make an album and don't write for two years and then end up with a blank paper starting over.

I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.

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

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

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.

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'