Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

On a good day I write, all day.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.

You don't disrupt genius at work.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

I think space and music go hand in hand in the sense that they give a little more mystery and magic to life.

The best stuff - the most interesting stuff - usually happens when I allow myself to be in the moment and working from that space.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.

I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.

I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.

Fire is a good companion for the mind.