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Quotes About Inspiration

By changing a life, just one life, you -can- change the world. It is the only way anyone ever has. [Anna of Cleves]
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Thousands of musical voices, like rain on water, beckoned.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Yet I had such joy from the words.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
It's a wonderful thing to read about other people's lives, but it's important to live your own life too - no matter how challenging that life may sometimes be.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
You gave those people hope, girl, and that's a dangerous thing. There's no greater weapon in the whole world than hope. It's dangerous because it's powerful.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I stood there in a trance, the bucket at my feet, listening as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
she had said no. "Reading became my sanctuary," Belle continued. "I found so much in those books. I found histories that inspired me. Poems that delighted me. Novels that challenged me…" Belle paused, suddenly self-conscious. She looked down at her hands, and in a wistful voice, said, "What I really found, though, was myself.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Es una pena que no entienda que la música vive. Eternamente. Que es más poderosa que la muerte. Más poderosa que el tiempo. Y que su fuerza te sostiene cuando ya no hay nada que pueda sostenerte.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
How could she explain to them what her swashbuckler clothes meant to her?... She saw herself - being braver and stronger than she'd ever thought she could be.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I AM ORFEO FEAR ME
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The Six Who Ruled live inside each of you. - Vraja
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Jennifer Donnelly
~ I do, Mahdi.
I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.
~ Jennifer Echols
I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.
~ Jennifer Echols
Art is the most effective form of communication.
~ Jennifer Echols
We're not talking about your life. We're talking about your writing. Your imagination. Your creativity. And it's time you learned there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your writing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more.
~ Jennifer Echols
I remembered what Mr. Hall had told me when I first asked him for a lesson: the kids who watch planes are destined to be pilots.
~ Jennifer Echols
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
~ Jennifer Echols
Sam was creative and dedicated, but his wasn't the plodding bright-and-early work ethic of the morning person, like mine. It was the crazy creative burst of the night owl, long dark hours of despair before dawn.
~ Jennifer Echols
You can draw!" I exclaimed. "Yeah," his voice echoed from the kitchen. "I mean really draw [...]" "I told you I would major in art, hypothetically." "Yeah, but I thought the bullshit you fed me about lifting up the human spirit was compensation for not being able to draw.
~ Jennifer Echols
It's never wrong to pursue something you love.
~ Jennifer Echols
I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer's block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.
~ Jennifer Egan
She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be.
~ Jennifer Egan