Grace Helbig Quotes

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.

In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.'

Inevitably any series that goes on too long will reach a point where it starts struggling for ideas, so I've always been really aware of getting out while the going's good.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

You can only be creative so long and then you're just down and out and completely destroyed.

The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing these awful books. And there's something sort of horrifying about it.

I don't want to be seen in every second film. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh no, she's in this one too.'

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry.

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

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

Sometimes I draw blanks.

I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.