Quotes About Inspiration

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.

Cross-pollination and 'contamination' is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.

I follow the work of my contemporaries. I love their work.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

Content begets content.

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.

People are watching GoPro content not to decide whether they should buy it or not - they're watching it for the entertainment.

One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.

Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.

I want to continue making things.

Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.

I feel like I'm a legend continuing to be a legend!

I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short story writing.

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.

What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.

My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.

Art is a continuum.