John Darnielle Quotes

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.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

I like the inspiration of the first take.

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

When material comes to me, I don't care where it's coming from. Japan, Singapore, China, Africa... it could be from everywhere. The material should excite me. It's not important where it's coming from.

This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.