“I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.” MatterInspirationWorrySittingDown AndSitting Down Author:Frank Herbert
“Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts jokes. Sometimes her inspiration comes from areas of her life that are risqué. But she is an A-plus professional joke-writer in addition to being very attractive and a great performer.” WritingSometimesInspirationJokesAreasDown AndCraftsAttractivePlusPerformers Author:Mindy Kaling
“One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.” IfsShouldDoeHardDoneInspirationEasyWaitingOne DayShould HaveDown AndWork OutSurfaceCoalVeinsDeep DownAnother DayMiners Author:Sir Arthur Sullivan
“I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.” WritingShowsInspirationArtistSittingDown AndCoffeeSitting Down Author:Chuck Ragan
“There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may be a word. It may be a phrase. It may be a title. Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, that divine inspiration extends through the whole song. I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping...in two minutes. The chorus of 'She's Gone' was like that.” WorldWritingMayTwoIdeasEndsSometimesWholeInspirationSongGoneWrittenMinutesDivineDown AndCraftsTitlesPhrasesSatSongwritingStoppingChorusDivine InspirationBest Of Both Worlds Author:John Oates
“God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.” YearsFirstsInspirationDown AndYears Of Experience Book:Rolfing and Physical Reality Source: Rolfing and Physical Reality
“That's where the inspiration was and so the more that you rewrite and the more you rewrite and the more the numbnuts are coming in to give you notes then the more problems you run into and the more it suddenly doesn't seem like the movie, the story, the characters changed, watered down and we don't have that with this.” GivingCharacterStoriesProblemInspirationSeemsRunningChangedDown AndNotes Author:Todd Farmer
“The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player.” PeopleThinkingWritingWellsSometimesInspirationHappensTodaySongInterestingPlayerCoupleDown AndTitlesPianoSugarSongwritersInteresting Things Author:Andy Kim
“I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.” IfsWritingBelieveInspirationWaitingDown AndDon't BelieveBlockWriter's Block Author:Elmore Leonard