“Over the years, I’ve found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to…”— Norman Mailer, amazon.com
“Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on.…”— Orson Scott Card, fictionfactor.com
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will w…”— Ernest Hemingway, medium.com
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”— Mark Twain, bloomberg.com
“I’ve never worked a day in my life. I’ve never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: ‘Am I being joyful?’ And if you’ve got a writer’s block, you can cure it this evening by stopp…”— Ray Bradbury, brainpickings.org
“I encourage my students at times like these to get one page of anything written, three hundred words of memories or dreams or stream of consciousness on how much they hate writing — just for the hell of it, just to keep their fingers from becoming too arthritic, just because they have made a commitm…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down and read it (printouts are best I find, but that’s just me) as if you’ve never seen it before. Start at the beginning. Scribble on the manuscript as you go if you see anything you want to change. And of…”— Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com
“What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat.’ And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.’”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, en.wikiquote.org
“Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.”— Candace Bushnell, amazon.com
“OK, everyone: shut up! And look at me! Welcome to ‘Visions of Nature.’ This room has several paintings in it. Some are big, some are small. People did them and they’re here now. I believe that after this is over, they’ll be hung in government buildings. Why the government is involved in an art show…”— Ron Swanson, amazon.com
“That's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.”— Gene Wilder, newsweek.com
“I just don’t know if movies can ever be considered art, because there’s so much money involved... It’s all about commerce. I don’t think art can come from that place.”— Johnny Depp, vanityfair.com
“The very thought of you has my legs spread apart like an easel with a canvas begging for art.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com
“For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue—that I had to do the job myself.”— Anaïs Nin, thoughtcatalog.com