Quotes About Inspiration

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

I devoted my life to music for a reason, and the reason wasn't because I wanted to get on or make money, but to try to fulfil myself and also to give people pleasure. That's been my credo.

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet.

There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process.

I get these students who come in and say, I want to help people. I say, people get plenty of help. Why don't you help the planet?

There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.

I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation.

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

Anyone who's familiar with my writing schedule knows that there is always plenty of time between books for me!

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.