Thomas Kinkade Quotes

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.

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

If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.

The whole area of creativity is constipated and frightened.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet.

My computer is littered with abandoned projects.

I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.

The thing that was most harmful was that there was always something that was about to happen. So I found myself indulging in the writer's luxury of doing another draft, another idea. If this project isn't happening, then I'll shelve one script and start writing another. And in that way, the years go by, and there's very little money coming in.

I never talk about work in progress because once I talk about it I don't do it anymore.

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.

I've recorded lots of projects, but just haven't bothered to release them.

I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.

Most people who have ideas, those ideas sit in their head forever until they eventually die.

I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I'm terribly anxious when it's not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with.

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.