Allowing Quote by Emma Thompson

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems…

— Alan Moore

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

— Robin Sloan

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

— Jeff Bridges

If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like…

— Natalie Goldberg

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of…

— Adam Pascal

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

— Laurell K. Hamilton

As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they…

— Spike Jonze

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to…

— Brad Listi

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

— Saul Bass

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

— Kesha