Quotes About Inspiration

I'm really happy that more and more people are making their own comics. I remember how daunting it was for me to just put pen to paper, page by page, until you had a finished comic, but the way new creators are doing that and bravely bringing their unique voices and experiences to their work is really inspiring.

The power of storytelling - of elevating the voices and examples of incredible leaders who have overcome odd after odd - remains absolute.

Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others.

The fact that we're young females and our voices are being heard loud and clear is really, really special to both of us.

I have two sisters that are directors: one's in documentary, one's in film. My mother was a writer and a painter, so I've been surrounded since childhood by dynamic women and female voices in arts.

I came late to Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. I don't know why, but that's the beauty of music - songs and voices are there when you need them, when you're ready to find them, whether in their time or after.

I dedicated my first 'American Woman' series to my mother. She and millions in her generation felt they couldn't use their voices, but they taught their daughters they must use theirs.

There are just so many brilliant voices out there. I'm not the funniest person out there, I'm not the best interviewer. I'm not the best at anything, but I really just am a big fan of everyone. I'm really driven by trying to make sure that representation is out there.

As I've been teaching longer and longer, I realize I learn so much from the voices I'm naturally drawn to, the writers I love on an instinctive level - but I also learn so much from the writers that I have to work to grasp.

As far as I'm concerned, the voices of Washington, black Washington, it's poetry, man. There's beauty in it.

As I traveled around the country on a book tour for 'In Harm's Way,' I began learning how certain Indianapolis survivors had heard these voices - not necessarily the voice of God, but often that of someone who had fostered them and imparted an identity as a person who doesn't quit.

I really admire other voices.

I have to be excited by a particular voice to consider it for a song. I am open to new voices. If I come across one that I like instinctively, then I would like to work with that singer.

If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance to write in your own.

We always like working with really powerful female voices.

When I work with other artists, I really want to bring out the most in their voices and I want to hold myself to the same standard.

I'm happy to see people being fearless and finally knowing that their voices mean something and that they stand for something.

You can start making films as a child. It's become easier to find your groove as a filmmaker, and I'm extremely interested in those voices.

I love collaborating with different voices.

The Pavarotti and Galway albums were a lot of fun because I got to work with two of the best 'voices' in the world.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.

Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

There's a certain missing feeling, a void out there that I'm more than happy to fill. Without criticizing what's out there now, I'm just going to do El DeBarge.