Nathaniel Branden Quotes

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

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

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.