Quotes About Inspiration

a man needs to aspire to greatness and if he gives up on his hope for excellence, his soul dies

If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.

Another important statement

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.

I don't know whether I could do either one, reading or writing, without the other

But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.

Once you're into a story everything seems to apply- what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet a part of your story. I guess you're tuned in for it, and the right things are sort of magnetized.

For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

And who could ever remember any of the things he says? They are just inspired remarks that roll out of his mouth like smoke.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing, once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

Only the writing of fiction keeps fiction alive.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing

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MADELEINE: Well, then, if you've always been such a sober-sides, if you've nothing seriously wrong with you, if all your faculties are still intact, wake yourself up a bit, get to work, write your masterpiece . . . AMÉDÉE: I tell you I've no inspiration . . .

the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating... that collectedness and presence of mind...the right frame of mind for the artist is only reached when the preparing and the creating, the technical and the artistic, the material and the spiritual, the project and the object, flow together without a break.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing, or thinking about writing.