Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

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

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

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.

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.