Demetri Martin Quotes

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

Showers last only 10 minutes, but you can't do anything else in there but think. The shower is probably the main place I come up with ideas. That's where I came up with the concept for OneVoice, my nonprofit organization.

I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I'll just keep notes in my phone. It might just be one or two words, and then that could inspire a whole song, lyrically.

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.