Seth Godin Quotes

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven't a clue; I'm just grateful that I get them.

I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

I don't believe in writer's block.

I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I used to think that most published writers, the ones I admired, had a muse, or a special connection to the universe, to nature, or to aliens - something inaccessible to me that caused their prose to flow onto the page, already perfect.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.

Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.