Jay-Z Quotes

When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or the future or how it's going to be received. I feel that I'm very lucky that way; I don't carry that particular anxiety around with me. I'm not anxiety-free by any means, but that happens to be one that I've been spared.

Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.

The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.

Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

When I write I find a quiet place.

It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.

Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

You need to keep something for yourself. As a writer, I feel that even more strongly. I feel like I need to be able to freely observe the world. That's the way I like to move through the world; I don't need to be the focus of attention. If I am, it impairs my ability to write and to do what I do.

A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.

You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

I have my own studio. I'm in it all the time.