Lucinda Williams Quotes

I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot.

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It is not a very violent storm, but what's happening is I am just thinking about different ideas and maybe things I've seen that day that I think might make a good story.

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

I'm a very heady person; I'm in my head a lot.

Writing is essentially an internal process.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Man lives by imagination.

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

A lot of writing is thinking.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.