Quotes About Inspiration

When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

I can see that, without being excited, mathematics can look pointless and cold.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.

I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

When a story or part of a story comes to me, I turn it over in my mind a long time before starting to write. I might make notes or take long drives or who knows what. By the time I give myself permission to write, I know certain things, though not everything. I know where the story is headed, and I know certain crucial points along the way.

The people that really inspired me are the people I have now managed to become contemporaries with, like Four Tet and Floating Points. I learn so much about music just from hanging around with them.

Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.

I know what my purpose is. I know what I need to do out there on the floor. Sometimes you won't score a bunch of points, but breathing confidence into the people around you is the biggest key, the biggest role.

There were points in my career where I thought, 'Maybe I'm done. Maybe I've written everything there is to write.' Now I've learned that it's just working itself out. You have to let it do it.

I grew up listening to a lot of Snoop Dogg and the Wu-Tang Clan. Actually, I was a huge Wu-Tang fan.

We started playing music because of the Wu-Tang Clan.

I like the Wu Tang Clan a lot.

I love my 'Boom Clap.' Charli XCX is a big one for me.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Everyone wanted to play like Eric Clapton in the early to mid-'60s.

But there are definitely times when I just need to write to clarify my thoughts and put any doubts to bed.

The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.