Quotes About Inspiration

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

Because I didn't go to graduate school or have mentorship out of college, meeting other playwrights and developing those friendships as a result of being a 'grown up' playwright - that's become an essential community for me. My contemporaries are all my mentors whether they know it or not.

I plead the almighty that I leave this world with ghungroos on my feet.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

Please, believe in yourself!

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

To all the young generation in the Philippines, please dream high.

From now on, we want to put on even cooler performances, be cooler, be better, so look forward to it. Please, always look forward to it.

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

I'd like to work at the Royal Court Theatre, please.

I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I make music that isn't for something I want to make, and it's to please other people, it's - the outcome is really bad.