Kristin Hannah Quotes

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

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

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

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

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.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

Anything is better than sitting around waiting for the right movie to come along. I lose my edge when I'm sitting around the pool not working.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

Sometimes you just get in there and force yourself to work, and maybe something good will come out, ya know? Deadlines and things make you creative. Opportunity and telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want-that just kills creativity.

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

The only thing I know for sure about the creative process is it always comes back. Magically. When there are no creative juices and nothing is coming to me - if I wait - it comes!

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.

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

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

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.