Joshua Ostrander Quotes

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.

I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.

I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.

I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.

The emotional power of creating something... Nothing gives me as much joy as that.

Creating 'Upgrade' was really something I enjoyed even though it was stressful. I would do it all again.

If I'm astonished by what I've done, then I know I've been somewhere in the making of it but not during the making of it. Only after the fact. If I'm not astonished, then I've failed in the making of it.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.

I think I took eight or nine months to make 'Immunity.' I just focused on mainly that, and it felt amazing.

It took me two years to write 'Fallingwater,' but it's one of my favorite pieces I've ever made, and it was worth waiting for.

I've always taken a lot of joy in my work, but it's also been very results-oriented. It's kind of like, making the thing, and taking a lot of joy in that, as opposed to allowing myself to be transported by the work of my fellow musicians.

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.

You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.

I've done a bunch of collaborations where it goes well and you finish it, but then you're kind of like, "I just don't like it." And it sits there. It can be awkward, but a real musician understands that you're not always going to make what you want it to be. You can't just polish everything into perfection.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.

I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone against everyone else, from which wells up all that has never been before.

When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you line them up as actually as you possibly can, but sooner or later the book has got momentum and it's moving along under that momentum. It's like a sculpture, if you're working with the grain of the wood, the wood will start defining what shape it's going to become.

I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product.