Hill Harper Quotes

When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is what makes me such a bad dinner guest. I'm always looking over someone's shoulder, taking in stuff around the room, immersed in the world of whatever I'm writing about, and keeping the characters completely in my head.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point that I'm incapable of speech. I feel that if I start speaking, I'll lose the writing, like getting off the treadmill.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

I can concentrate on my art.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers or readers. I write the story the way it comes to me.

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.