Rande Gerber Quotes

I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.

I've heard Simon Cowell is awake all through the night... To be honest that is when I get all my work done.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

I remember trying to write at 1, 1:30 A.M., and just sort of falling asleep. And I think that was actually a good creative state for weird ideas. I shifted to a morning schedule once I had two kids, and I still found that if I slept badly, I actually had better ideas.

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

I have an office at my house, so when I go home I am always pulling inspiration and putting ideas together.

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.