Vince Staples Quotes

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.