Quotes About Inspiration

Write what you care about, write what moves you, what intrigues you and you find compelling, write what angers you and makes you sad.

We cannot relive Apollo, but we can preserve its legacy; we can continue to tell the story.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

As I turned toward writing, which is partially intellectual in its function, but is primarily intuitive and emotional in its execution, I turned towards that which was numinous and emotional in me, and that was the legend of King Arthur Asleep Under the Hill. It stood for all that I'd had to give up in order to understand what I'd had to give up.

I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

It's not a job but a condition. (Alan Garner on writing)

The more I learn, the more I am convinced that there are no original stories. On several occasions I have "invented" an incident, and then come across it in an obscure fragment of Hebridean lore, orally collected, and privately printed, a hundred years ago.

Como el señor Keats, el poeta, convertiría el vagar sola y pálida en virtud. Tendría que hacerse alguien, y no la esposa de alguien

And without a dream, without ambition, what point was there to living?

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.

and a chocolate brown woolly

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.