Quotes About Inspiration

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Marine Le Pen belongs to her generation, I belong to mine. I got into politics for Marine Le Pen and with her as party leader.

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and people are going to read what you write - that's power.

I used to only like writing with pen and paper, but because I travel so much, I started to lose the paper.

The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to start writing and pick up a pen. I wanted to explain and understand the world around me because it was easy to see it was corrupted.

As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that's it.

It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a great song. I'd love to write songs like that.

We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down.

I was Eazy's pen, because he couldn't write lyrics.

I've never been able to sit down with a pen and paper and kind of craft out a song, or really force anything out. It always has to come almost subconsciously.

I have always been a pencil.

I always lose every single pencil I ever had. So I can draw with everything. With pencil, with pen.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

You need to take a little break sometimes. Then, hopefully, you get some more lead in your pencil, and you're raring to go again!

I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

The best ideas come from sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil.

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

If you give me an eyeliner, I can create 40 looks with that - whether it's liquid or pencil.