Quotes About Inspiration

To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them.

I came up with a pen and tablet hoping to write an immortal short story, but I've been having a dreadful time with my heroine— I CAN'T make her behave as I want her to behave; so I've abandoned her for the moment, and am writing to you.

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination.

Me gustaría ver el mundo entero, y algún día lo conseguiré... cuando sea una gran autora, pintora, actriz o cualquier otra cosa grande que llegue a ser. La vida errante me atrae mucho.

Thank the good Lord!" cried the mother, when she grasped the fact that the small piece of paper was one hundred dollars. "It wasn't the good Lord at all," said I, "it was Daddy-LongLegs." "But it was the good Lord who put it in his mind," said she. "Not at all! I put it in his mind myself," said I.

name—Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco—Bol

L'écrivain – et chacun pouvait l'être –, en refusant d'être artiste, réalisait ce miracle de l'art : créer une chose !

When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face.

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court.

I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town side, I reshoot the close-ups for Touch of Evil. Down at the beach, I rework the dolly shots for Stagecoach, and offshore I re-create the storm rocking the smugglers of Moonfleet.

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Oh, how I wish I could make those who see my work feel the splendors and terrors of the night! One ought to be able to make people hear the songs, the silences, and murmurings of the air. They should feel the infinite.

Now and again when a book moved her, when a book opened a previously undiscovered window in her mind and forever altered her perception of the world, she would add it to those secret ranks.

Javier reminded her, in the middle of her mothering years, that life was exciting, that there was always the possibility of something, or someone, previously undiscovered.

later drafts of this novel and encouraging me

Amor en los tiempos del cólera, first in Spanish, then again in English. No one can take this from her. This book is hers alone.

I communed with jackrabbits, lizards, and peculiar desert squirrels and felt astonished by how much life popped and teemed in the desert. The Sonoran birds made songs I'd never heard before.

como «plática motivacional con crisis de identidad»

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.