Quotes About Inspiration

The success is more determined by imagination then circumstance

Richard Paul Evans

Heroes.... More times than not, they are humble beings: small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

For poetry, like life, is its own justification

Writing always came naturally to me. It was like speaking, but easier. Actually, a lot easier.

Prologue When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.

Without dreams, life is a desert.

When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.

No idea is too strange or ridiculous. An unworkable idea may inspire in someone else an idea that will work.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.

Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.

Richard Phillips

Richard Porter

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.

You have given me a thing I could never have imagined, before I knew you. It's like I had the word "book," and you put one in my hands. I had the world "game," and you taught me how to play. I had the word "life," and then you came along and said, "Oh! You mean this.

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

Richard Reeves

If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You're a human being, with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. If you speak with passion, many of us will listen. We need stories to live, all of us. We live by story. Yours enlarges the circle.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.