Gioachino Rossini Quotes

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'

I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff.'

The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

If you're waiting for inspiration, you'll wait until you're dead.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up.

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.