Michael Giacchino Quotes

I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly.

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

I don't believe in writer's block.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

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

Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.

I don't know where the ideas come from, and it's terrifying. They seem to be absolute flukes. When I was in my 20s, I'd walk around with a notebook all the time and make sure I wrote down anything that occurred to me. Now I'm just hoping that some sort of event will descend on me.

It may be that learning to do creative work of any kind - not just direct imagery exercises - may help combat writer's block.

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

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

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

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.