Quotes About Inspiration

I look over my old books, happiest when I find a line it seems I could not have written.

I lead God's people on the path of righteousness and my inheritance is filled with good and wonderful things.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

Ars longa, vita brevis," she whispered, a quote from Hippocrates. One of her favorites. Life is short, art eternal.

The greatest blessings granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. —SOCRATES, ON THE ORACLE OF DELPHI

I am a collector of bread crumbs, all those bits of science and history that I mash and knead together to build my stories. And now that the bread is baked and served, my goal here is to try to separate those slices of the story that are based on substantial fact from those that are pure fabrication.

Tesla once stated, instinct is something which transcends knowledge. "Anton

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. —IPHIGENIA, A TRAGEDY BY QUINTUS ENNIUS (239–169 B.C.)

the pursuit of knowledge is never for naught. Each line drawn on a map gets us closer to understanding the world and our place in it.

Read. Read everything in the genre in which you want to write, but don't limit yourself. Read broadly. The best teacher of writing is a good book.

Maybe such brave souls were the world's true messiahs. Maybe we didn't need to wait idly by for heavenly salvation. Maybe we were always our best hope.

Walter Isaacson's Leonardo da Vinci, which both humanizes the man and offers insight into his genius (do read

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop's fall.

Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.