Quotes About Inspiration

Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower," wrote Dylan Thomas

The great imaginative artists have always sailed in the wind's eye, and brought back with them words or sounds or images to counterbalance human woes. That they themselves were subject to more than their fair share of these woes deserves our appreciation, understanding, and very careful thought.

before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.

My mind was flying high that day, courtesy of whatever witches' brew of neurotransmitters God had programmed into my genes, and I filled page after page with what I am sure, thinking back on it, were very strange responses.

Schubert's posthumous Piano Sonata in B-flat, D. 960. Its

Think pink. A better way of life.

And charge it please.

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

What this all amounted to was that as I was growing up, long before I'd ever thought to create fictional worlds in prose, I was busily constructing in my mind a richly detailed place called 'Japan' – a place to which I in some way belonged, and from which I drew a certain sense of my identity and my confidence.

My imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.

Este trigo hundirá sus vigorosas raíces en la tierra, soportará el frío, el viento y la nieve, y crecerá con fuerza apuntando al cielo. Con el tiempo, terminará coronándose de una espléndida espiga. Aprended del trigo, hijos míos.

in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.

Tell me half a cup's worth of story and we'll call it a night.

Kdekdo žije v domnÄ›ní, že umÄ›lecká Å¡kola je jiná, pÃ…â"¢ekypuje kreativní energií, tÃ…â"¢ídy jsou plné spokojených mladých lidí, dokonce i gotici jsou zde tak Å¡Å¥astni, jak jen jim to jejich rozervané duÅ¡e dovolí.

The muse is a fickle bitch. Woke me at five. You're

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

I didn't find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places.

Kelly McClymer

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

I've always been a reader; no matter what else I've lost, I hung on to that.

Books. I needed to ground myself and nothing, not even the Jay, quite does it like books. I don't always have the focus to read them but I sure do need them around