Milton Avery Quotes

When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

I don't get ideas, I have them. The trick is to remember where I've put them.

I write in the studio.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes to you. When you're improvising, it's the same thing. You're writing. You just say it out loud right then, instead of saying, 'You think this might work?'

I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

Imagination needs to be fed.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.