Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

It helps me rejuvenate when I use my energy in different directions and then come back to acting.

You need to take a little break sometimes. Then, hopefully, you get some more lead in your pencil, and you're raring to go again!

Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this one is a huge distraction. There's a garden bursting with fresh vegetation, and just beyond the high wall at the end of it, I can see the sign of the local pub across the road. Distractions, eh? I'm so easily led.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

It is important to take short breaks for the best use of your creative talents.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark.

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.