Markus Persson Quotes

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

I don't believe in writer's block.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days.

I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.

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.

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

I have read that, when you are writing or working on something creative, and your attention wanders, your brain is processing and working on what you have just done. But I find it hard to believe that my brain is really taking five hours to fully process the seven minutes I have managed to spend focused on one thing.

I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet.

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.