“I want better work-life balance because everything in my life feels wildly skewed, and I do so much bizarre work. I know I work too much.”— Roxane Gay, elemental.medium.com
“You can be a little bit lost in your own world and be doing an amazing thing and not realize it, or think something’s unbelievable and it’s garbage.”— Chris Cornell, salon.com
“I’m always creating stuff. So if it’s a long car ride, if it’s a night off in the hotel, if I’m flying somewhere, I’m always on my computer. I’m always writing words, making beats, creating beds of music. And it kind of never stops. Like, I could just be walking around somewhere, have an idea, and I…”— Mike Shinoda, gq.com
“The idea comes, then the wording comes within 25 seconds. And then it’s done. And if I say it and it doesn’t work, I don’t change it, I get rid of it.”— Steven Wright, theguardian.com
“And so it’s a slow process, but the easiest answer, the fastest answer, although there’s still a lot of work behind it is, you should just do it honestly! And if you have an idea you always want to put on screen, look at someone who’s already doing it and just do what they do.”— Monty Oum, nerdreactor.com
“This happens to me a lot—it doesn’t come out as good as it did in my head when I first wrote it.”— Eminem, interviewmagazine.com
“I know I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning.”— Kevin Gates, vibe.com
“I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Goethe is not disturbed because of this restless urge for novelty in itself, but rather because it prevents the kind of ripening that is essential to the creative process—that in the constant reading of newspapers about the events of yesterday. For instance, one 'wastes the days and lives from hand…”— Leo Löwenthal, amazon.com