Quotes About Inspiration

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Un livre est un outil de liberté.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

A young thinker, untainted by current indoctrinations. Someone who might do some real good in the world.

But there was one thing he actually did believe in that bordered on the magical, or at least the beyond-pedestrian, and that was the duty a writer owed to a story.

Miss Saigon from Madam Butterfly. The Hours from Mrs. Dalloway. The Lion King from Hamlet

Good writers borrow, great writers steal, Jake was thinking.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you!

If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep loving the same sad small life.

If you keep telling the same sad, small story, you will keep living the same sad, small life.

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in another and truly believed that anything was possible.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

The first draft of the entire six book series was written at one time, in one single burst of creative energy, over a four month period of 12 to 16 hour days of sustained writing, during which I did almost nothing else except additional research. I thought at the time that it would be one novel, Earth's Children, but it fell into six parts. It was only on rewriting that I realized that I had instead written an in-depth outline for a six book series.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. I get inspiration from working. I just have to push through and finally it'll start to come together again. The brain is always going, you just don't realize it.

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

No one told her it was impossible to rapid-fire two stones from a sling, because it had never been done before, and since no one told her she couldn't, she taught herself to do it.

Sometimes women who aren't perfect are more interesting; they've done more, or learned something.

I think architecture has to be a gift.