Shannyn Sossamon Quotes

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

I like having a studio to go to. It's like having a job.

In terms of, like, getting into a mindset, I use music all the time when I'm working.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

On a good day I write, all day.

My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.

Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

I will admit that I often spend weekends after each 'House of Cards' season is released binge-watching the show for hours. But I watch it because it is entertaining, not because it reminds me of my day-to-day.

When we go out there, we have fun, but we get to work, and I think we're at our best when we're having fun. Having fun is key.

I just said, 'I need to do something because staying up and watching YouTube and late night TV is not cool,' so I just decided to write a script.

If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.