Graham Linehan Quotes

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.

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

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

I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it's important to recognize when you're in that valley so you can get back out and get back to that peak.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

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

I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then I go for months without a thing to write about. My song 'So Good, So Right' came to me while I was washing dishes after a dinner party.

It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

I don't believe in writer's block.

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

If I get writer's block - this is going to sound funny - I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I'm cleaning my brain as well as my body.

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.

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.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it's leading me and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

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

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