Sarah Kane Quotes

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.

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

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.

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.

I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?

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.

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

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 used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.

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

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

Sometimes I draw blanks.

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.

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

So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.

I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music'd out.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

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.

As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.