Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

I've never had writer's block.

I'm not really worried about writer's block.

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

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.

And, of course, there were some times when I had writer's block and I had a hard time figuring out how to express what I wanted to express.

It may be that learning to do creative work of any kind - not just direct imagery exercises - may help combat writer's block.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

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

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

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.

Usually with me, the ideas I have for movies just sort of pop into my head. I've read a bunch of screenwriting books over the years and, to be honest, they're mostly pretty crappy.

I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're going, you can always start from there and work your way back.

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

I've learned never to try and force words to come.

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

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.

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

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

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 always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

Imagination is the air of mind.

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.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.