Timothy Olyphant Quotes

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

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

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on. But routinely when I finish a book, I think, "What will I do? Where will I get an idea?" And a kind of low-level panic sets in. And then eventually something happens. I don't know. If I knew how it happened I would repeat the process, but I don't know - something just occurs to me.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

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.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

A good artist has less time than ideas.

The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.

My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

Oftentimes, when I'm trying to get inspired, I'll find myself just staring at the wall and let the fans inspire me to get creative.

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.

I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea.

If you're waiting for inspiration, you'll wait until you're dead.

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.

Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.

I've never been able to develop a movie over several years, and keep coming back to it and adding to it. I get excited by the spark of an idea, and if I can't go make that, there's another idea that comes along that I get excited about. It has to happen quickly, in order for it to happen, at all.

It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.