Nathaniel Rateliff Quotes

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

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

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

A good artist has less time than ideas.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

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