Quotes About Inspiration

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

FESTIVITY BREEDS CREATIVITY. RIGIDITY BREEDS DESPAIR

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

When we forget ourselves, when we let go of being good and just settle into just being a writer, we begin to have the experience of writing through us. We retire as the self-conscious author and become something else - the vehicle for self-expression. When we are just the vehicle, the storyteller and not the point of the story, we often write very well - we certainly write more easily.

when we move out of faith into the act ofJ creation, the universe is able to advance.

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. MARTHA GRAHAM

Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Real prayer begins when we enter into such communion with Him, that the Holy Spirit can pray the will of the Father through us.

Each one of us should have much of the written Word resident within us through our "devotional" relationship to the Word of God. Then we can be quickened by the Holy Spirit to speak the Word of the Lord to those who are needy, at the time of their need. This is a practical "ministry" that often is not recognized.

West harkens back to the halcyon days when there was "a vital community bound by its ethical ideals."56 Unfortunately, oppression does not always produce such felicitous outcomes, and the victims of oppression are not always ennobled by their experience and an inspiration to the rest of us.

How is it that in the Bible it is the Devil and his vessel the Antichrist that are repeatedly referred to as the schemers, liars and the deceivers; but in the Qur'an, it is Allah who is the greatest of all deceivers? Satan knows full well who he is, and as he was inspiring the Qur'an, he couldn't help but brag a little.

the competitive mind is not the creative one.

Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that man fashions with his hands must first exist in his thought; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.

You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man. Genius is more than talent.

siempre puede empezar a hacer cosas pequeñas de una forma grandiosa. Aquí reside el secreto.

you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.