Quotes About Inspiration

You are creative, whoever you are. Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion then she lies.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are ... they are doing something you aren't.

When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.

Each man's soul is his genius.

There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.

I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

Hot coffee is like a warm-blooded man. They both give you the courage to face a new day.

I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

Writing can be a source of strength -Wang Liang

La escritura es una especie de sala de exposición, y un almacén que puede ayudar a crear un espacio para dar cabida a nuevas ideas y sentimientos. Si no pones estas historias por escrito, tu corazón se colmará de ellas y se romperá.

When the surface of your soul begins to stir, I imagine you want to capture the sensation in writing." - Yoko Ogawa

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one.

I suspect the only reason I've been able to go on writing is that I've had your heart by my side all along. — Y?ko Ogawa, The Memory Police , transl. Stephen Snyder (Pantheon, 2019)

It's like copying truths from God's notebook, though we aren't always sure where to find this notebook or when it will be open.

You can't write with your head. I want you to write with your hand," he said. It was rare for him to make a pronouncement like this, so I found myself simply nodding in silence. Then I stretched my hand toward him, fingers extended. "That's right. That's where the story should come from," he said, but he looked away, as though he had seen into the most vulnerable part of my body.

Matematyka jest jak gwiazdy, nie da si? wyja?ni? ich pi?kna.

Having written this phrase, I set down my pencil. My new novel wasn't going very well. I seemed to be writing in circles, going backward, or running into dead ends, with no idea what should come next. Still, I often encountered this sort of writer's block, and I no longer took much notice of it.

So, a great Indian teacher of mathematics discovered the zero written in God's notebook, and, thanks to him, we can now read many more pages in the notebook. Is that it?

You can't write with your head. I want you to write with your hand

The gentle patter of the rain was punctuated by the scratching of pencil on paper.