Natasha Khan Quotes

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

Trying to force creativity is never good.

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.

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

I'm not really worried about writer's block.

Any one thing can get in the way of you and your brain being comfortable and being inspired. It's the difference between a really big song and a song that never existed.

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

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

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

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

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

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.

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.

The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for writer's block, but it's actually just part one of a long process.

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

Deadlines and things make you creative.

I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

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

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

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!

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.