Hasan Minhaj Quotes

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

I've never had writer's block.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly.

Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.

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

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

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.