Quotes About Inspiration

I blundered into creativity as blindly as any child learning to walk and see.

In other words, if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about.

I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, Live forever! Bradbury later said, I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

He had seen her painted sign by the road: Skin Illustration! Illustration instead of tattoo! Artistic!

Take it where you can find it, in old photograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself.

When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.

But I wanted to show what we all have in us, that it has always been there, and so few of us bother to notice. When people ask me where I get my ideas, I laugh. How strange - we are so busy looking out, to find ways and means, we forget to look in.

You fail, only if you stop writing.

Thomas Wolfe ate the world and vomited lava. Dickens dined at a different table every hour of his life. Molière, tasting society, turned to pick up his scalpel, as did Pope and Shaw.

Stage 13 was, then, a toy shop, a magic chest, a sorcerer's trunk, a trick manufactory, and an aerial hangar of dreams at the center of which Roy stood each day, waving his long piano fingers at mythic beasts to stir them, whispering, in the ten-billion-year slumbers.

Is there a Bible chapter, I wonder? Futilities, verse four, paragraph two?' 'There will be.' 'And will I write it?' 'I have faith in you, Father!' 'Reverend!' he cried. 'Reverend,' I said.

No man is as big as his own idea.

Write a short story every week. All fifty-two of them can't be horrible.

It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.

We are cups, constantly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Chi crea non può fare a meno di distruggere.

ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow.

I try to keep up with what's being done in every field, and most children's books are ten times more enjoyable than the average American novel right now.

This is the emotional thing, you see — you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

It's not books you need, it is some of the things that once were in books. (...) Books were only the type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid to forget. (...) The magic is only in what books say.