Peter York Quotes

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single sentence.

A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.

The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear or feel a ding. And it just feels - it's going to be okay.

Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.