Todd Solondz Quotes

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

I don't know why I write what I write.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.