Quotes About Inspiration

You seemed so far away, Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings, Matilda said. It was wonderful.

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

So shines a good deed in a weary world.

I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure. Viaggiava su antichi velieri con Joseph Conrad. Andava in Africa con Ernest Hemingway e in India con Kipling. Girava il mondo restando seduta nella sua stanza, in un villaggio inglese.

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

A good plot is like a dream.

Every dream in the world is making a different sort of buzzy-hum music.

Don't worry,' he said. 'So long as the facts are there, I can write the story. But please,' he added, 'let me have plenty of detail. That's what counts in our business, tiny little details, like you had a broken shoelace on your left shoe, or a fly settled on the rim of your glasses at lunch, or the man you were talking to had a broken front tooth...

It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

This dream is continuing very nice. It has a very dory-hunky ending.

Era così piacevole tener vicino una bevanda calda mentre leggeva e leggeva, nella sua stanzetta silenziosa. I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure.

She believed she could so she did.

Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

listening intently. He shook his head. 'There is no dream in here

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives...All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen

Watch with glittering eyes the world around you. [...] Those who do not believe in magic will never find it.

introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Un libro, piensas, es una cajita milagrosa: puedes meterlo en el bolsillo de tu abrigo y en él caben, sin embargo, muchas más cosas de las que existen en el mundo.