Quotes About Inspiration

There was never a push for us to become more practical... Fantasy is what our audience has come to expect.

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

Norman Vincent Peale brought the Gospel in a very practical way in our time of history for not only New York but our nation and also the Trump family.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now I'm a little more sedentary.

I just feel like I influence people because I'm like - I was practically homeless.

The human imagination can connect to practically anything.

You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

When I know I'm going to work on a cover, I practically run to the computer! After working with words for so long, it's lovely to do something that's creative yet also the professional equivalent of scribbling in your own coloring book.

I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned practically everything I know from Ohio State. And I'm really glad I went.

I grew up practically getting into this business because of David Letterman. I wanted to do comedy-based interviews.

Write something and leave it aside so you've practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back and read it as if you're reading it for the first time.

I find it's only when something is trying to come through I really practice. And then, I don't know how many hours. It's all day.

Because I practice often with my children at home.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

I lived with my teacher and he was my father and he practiced every day so I practiced every day and we practiced every day together.

No matter what I've worked on or what art practices I've delved into, they've always been an attempt to world-build.

First, I started to play the organ. I did that until I was 11. From the age of 11 to 13, I gave up music entirely. And then at 13, I picked up the guitar, and after one and a half years, I started practicing intensively. I began playing in rock bands, and it was there that I discovered that the music I liked to write was always instrumental.

If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.

I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to me. There's a lot of talent there.