Quotes About Inspiration

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

But Jesus never defines what someone must have faith in; he doesn't say "your faith in me has healed you." Rather, it's faith itself, the trust in things unseen that heals.

Perish the men who said our good things before us!

Confound those who have said our remarks before us.

Would that I might get a mantle like unto the heavens!

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.

I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That's all." ~ Mrs. Oliver

Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.

Man is an unoriginal animal," said Hercule Poirot

Los argumentos se me ocurren en los momentos más insospechados, como cuando voy caminando por la calle o me estoy probando un sombrero en una tienda y, de repente, una idea espléndida me viene a la cabeza.

The supernatural seems supernatural. But the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle