Creative Refreshment Quotes

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion.

If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

I'm used to writing and performing my own material; doing someone else's is refreshing.

One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

There have been some brilliant and very successful standalone books that work in themselves and also seem to refresh a series. Anyone who writes a series lives in fear of it becoming stale, so you do whatever you can to keep it fresh - although it does feel a bit nerve-racking to write outside of your comfort zone.

I always felt like, if I started feeling stale, my audience is probably feeling it before me.