Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.

That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. 'Oh, I'm just going for a walk, up a dune that's 45 degrees, but I'm walking, so it's not a workout.'

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

I'm spending way too much time test running my Vine videos. I'll go into a room and close the door and be in there for an hour workshopping a Vine video that I never even post. So that's probably a huge time suck.

I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

Maybe I don't ever fully switch off, but I think the way I offset that is by splitting my time between film and music. I always want to challenge myself and grow, fail, self-flagellate, and then try again.

I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.

I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives.

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or whatever - or else I need to create a made-up deadline for myself for my own records. Otherwise, I don't write anything.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.

I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

I'd just love to sit at home, wake up at 10AM, go to my own office with my dog, and write a movie. I don't know if I'm capable of doing that though. I think I'll just end up playing Minecraft and self-destructing.