Nikki Reed Quotes

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.

I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.

I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it.

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow.

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!

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

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

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

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

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

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

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

Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.