Quotes About Inspiration

White space. Blank canvas. Intimidating, but thrilling beyond belief. Anything can happen. When was the last time her art mattered?

There are as many ways to make one as there are monsters.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

Do you have a potent way to sustain your sense of meaning, courage, peace, and awe?

Wallace Stevens wrote, "After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

I'd like to live in a world designed by Theodore Finch.

If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.

I want you to know I'm rooting for you.' Sometimes we need to hear that, even from a stranger.

Before I die I want to have kids. Live in London. Own a pet giraffe. Skydive. Divide by zero. Play the piano. Speak French. Write a book. Travel to a different planet. Be a better dad than mine was. Feel good about myself. Go to New York City. Know equality. Live.

Theodore Finch, April 3. "Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!

You can't do this to me.You were the one who lectured me about living.You were the one who said I had to get out and see what was right in front of me and make the most of it and not wish my time away and find my mountain because my mountain was waiting, and all that adds up to life.But then you leave.You can't just do that.

One entire wall is covered in pictures and Post-it notes and napkins and torn pieces of paper.

The thing I realize is that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

He writes Before I die I want to and draws a line. He writes it again. Then he writes it a dozen more times. "After we fill these up, we can keep going on the front of the building and down the other side. It's a good way to figure out just why we're here.

But maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.

Sometimes in the darkest places, we find the brightest light.

There's this feeling you get when you write a really good, true sentence or paragraph or scene, and it makes you feel invincible, as if you can do anything. It feels like a superpower, and in that moment no one can touch you. You're the best there is. That's how you make me feel, Jeremiah Crew. Like I'm the best there is.

Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you!

On my bed, I sit down and flip through the cut-up books one by one, reading all the cut-up passages.

Over my desk, I've got this enormous bulletin board, and on it I've tacked black-and-white photographs of writers at work.

The wall is a place to keep track of thoughts, as fast as they come, and remember them when they go away. Anything interesting or weird or even halfway inspired goes up there.

Actually, standing next to you makes it feel as high as Everest.

I am the best dancer ever. I am a superstar. The shoes are magic. My feet are magic. I am magic.

I have a section for New Nameless Web Magazine.