Quotes About Inspiration

Everything starts as somebody's dream.

Did I still remember how to let my mind play?

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

Have at you, Builders! You can't keep a science-fiction writer in Hell!

When every page has been read and the book has been put down, is the story over? Some stories flow onward through the reader's imagination. Some authors leave playgrounds for the reader's mind

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

going to find what he was looking for there. "Would you feel better if I told you I had some great photography opportunities

Be the opposite of you : those words hit me, right away, penetrating the fog. Be the opposite of me? It was day ten and this was the first thing I remember hearing that sounded like a good idea. It was the first thing that sounded something like a real plan.

newspaper at that very table, and was racing

el secreto de la existencia humana no consiste sólo en poseer la vida, sino también en tener un motivo para vivir. El hombre que no tenga una idea clara de la finalidad de la vida, preferirá renunciar a ella aunque esté rodeado de montones de pan y se destruirá a si mismo antes que permanecer en este mundo.

All of a sudden she had a thought that made her run outside to look at the stars.

My grandmother had a very interesting theory; she said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help.

What is it about water that affects a person? I never see a great river or lake but I think how I would like to see a world made and watch it through all its changes.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

That was Laura, because she was so small.

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

Compose a haiku in honor of a person you admire. You are spiky spring, humming summer, wings that beat back ghosts of winter.

Poem after poem after poem is the heartbeat of the human race.

I have always said that a picture book is a palace for a poem. I still believe that.

go back through your "List of 100 Dreams" and choose elements of a few to incorporate into your days. Make two lists: one of activities that take half an hour or less, and another of activities that take less than 10 minutes. Then, figure out ways you can make these two sets of activities as easy as lighting up a cigarette or turning on the TV any time a bit of leisure shows up on your schedule.

If you choose your life's work well, something bewitching can happen through your labors. Each hour you log can be a source of joy.

A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages

Lauraine Snelling