Dylan Moran Quotes

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

Sometimes I'll go without writing for a while and I'll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I'll sit down and a dozen songs will pop out. It's fun.

If four or five days go by, and I haven't written anything, I feel incomplete.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

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.

I'm not really worried about writer's block.

Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

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.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

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

I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

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

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.