Skip to content

Creative process Quote by Glen Cook

“Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English." [ The Instrumentalities of the Night…” quote by Glen Cook — Download Open image

““Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English." [ The Instrumentalities of the Night: An Interview with Glen Cook , The SF Site, September 2005]””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Creative process Creativity Diligence Discipline Pay attention Resilience Talent Writing

More by Glen Cook

“Truth is a deadly weapon, Lady said.”

Image

“I cry for a little girl's dreams. I cry because the dreams will not die, though I am powerless to make them come true.”

Image

No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't…

Image

“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We fight for…

Image

Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends…

Image

“The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so the legend…

Image

“About you and me, Croaker and his gang, the Lady, Silent, Darling. About all the things we had in common but still couldn’t get along.” “I didn’t see all that much you had in common. Not once you got past having the same enemies.” “Neither did I for a long time. And none of them saw it, either. Else we…

The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived…

Image

“Closer at hand, the wheeling gulls were as surly and lackadaisical as the day promised to make most men.”

Image

A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

Image

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom…

Image

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Image

Explore all 69 Glen Cook quotes

More Creative process quotes

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

Stephen L. Carter

Image

“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of…

Image

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And…

Image

“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off…

Image

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

Image

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

Image

The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to…

“I’m a big believer in cooking your own meals. It makes it much easier not only to ensure that you eat fresh foods but also to follow the second rule of eating (see previous chapter), which advises incorporating as many colors, tastes, textures, and aromas as possible into one’s meal. Beyond those benefits, I feel that cooking celebrates self-respect, and…

I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement,…

Image

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in…

Image

“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.”

Stephanie Lennox

Image

Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been…

Browse all 691 Creative process quotes