Anais Nin Quotes

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.

I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.

You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito!

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

It is said an artist spends their whole life trying to get to the place where their heart was first opened up. 'Rent' was that place for me.

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

We get inspired and we learn new things.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.