Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone again because it has left me for some other, better writer.

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

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.'

Regret leads to negativity, and negativity kills creativity.

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

For me it's just, I have too many ideas, man. It's a problem, actually.

Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymore. When friends ask me how my week was or how I'm doing, I think back on it, and I've just been by myself. Like, I'm just a sketch.

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

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

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.