Garth Hudson Quotes

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

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

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

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

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.

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.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

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.

Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.

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.

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.

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

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.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

Imagination is the air of mind.

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

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

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

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.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.

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