Quotes About Inspiration

It's hard to write and be open and let things in when life is tough, but to keep everything out means there's nothing to work with.

Her taste for symmetry and structure, it helped her thoughts drift. Symmetry did not chain her, it set her free. (p. 85)

To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life. But I had nowhere to write.

Ideas come to us as the successors to griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure the heart.

To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life.

The writing life is mostly about stamina. To get to the finishing line requires the writing to become more interesting than everyday life...

Fiction is a wonderful home for the reach of the mind.

She is color, waiting to be mixed; a painting, ready to be brushed into life. She is a moment, waiting to be fixed forever under a shiny varnish.

If the poet says that he can inflame men with love, which is the central aim in all animal species, the painter has the power to do the same, and to an even greater degree, in that he can place in front of the lover the true likeness of that which is beloved, often making him kiss and speak to it. —LEONARDO DA VINCI, Notebooks

It is the power of a girl with a book that is the best weapon for progress

You will find that thing that makes you unafraid to die. That important thing that makes your life of value.

painting was not so much an art movement as a mission to free people from material concerns.

his hands got in the way of his art, preventing him from recording sensation as quickly as he experienced it.

the poetry lies in the crude handling of the paint rather than in the subject matter.

As satisfied as I was that I had accomplished what I had set out to do, I realized that the journey I had resolved to take did not end after the completion of the book. I have learned that each journey begets another one and life has a way of exponentially creating new roads to follow.

He doesn't steer us wrong if we can hear His voice when He speaks.

Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times we bang our heads against the wall wondering why we do this to ourselves.

External motivation is usually the most important to establish early in the book. Internal motivation can take a bit longer to develop and be woven into the fabric of the story one thread at a time. Coincidence:

Un adev?rat artist nu abandoneaz? niciodat? frumuse?ea

We cannot truly know and understand how God speaks to us unless we have actually experienced it. Learning to discern the fingerprint of God on your own life allows you to know deep in your soul and your skin the person God calls you to be. Then be that person instead of trying to be what you aren't. You'll be much richer for the experience. So will the rest of the world.

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

A theatre is not only a literal place, but also a space where we dream together; not merely a building, but a space that is both imaginative and collective. pg. 1

theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt. pg 1.

A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.