Dave Finkel Quotes

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.

I've never had writer's block.

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.

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.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

I don't believe in writer's block.

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

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

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

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

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.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

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

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

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

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.

Sometimes you don't really know what you're going to write about. I mean, there's times where you get into a writing room and it's a complete flop. And then there's times where you get to a writing room and you're like, 'Oh, I'm just on a roll.'

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's just not where things are at right now, and it's just a matter of time until there's something going on where I feel compelled to write.

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