William Peter Blatty Quotes

My influences happen at more of a subconscious level, I don't dig too deep into that or analyze it myself.

Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

We perceive, we remember our experiences, we make judgments, we act - and in all of these endeavors, we are influenced by factors that we aren't aware of.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

A lot of my friends inspire my style, and they don't even know it.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

Composers, artists, actors, singers - all of them, I think, unconsciously learn from others. I'm sure it's not conscious, but they can't help it.

I've had people - I've seen people do routines that I knew they didn't take from me but they had - because for whatever reason I had stopped doing it a long time ago. There's no way they would have heard this bit. But it ends up being pretty much the same thing.

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting.

I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In some ways, I have looked to his career as a model for my own.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.

A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.

I think anybody who's working in a creative medium is working partially with their conscious mind, partially with their unconscious mind. So, my unconscious mind may be a little more distorted and violent than I am aware of.

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.