Quotes About Inspiration

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity.

Most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Yes, everything that is truly seen must become a poem.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Women think in [Douglas] Sirk's films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It's something that has to be seen. It's great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly.

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

Throughout history, the North Star has guided the footsteps of the wayward traveler. So too does the spark of the Divine lead us to self-knowledge and God-realization.

Four hundred and fifty years earlier, the poet Kabir, whose profession as a spinner/weaver was in part emulated by Gandhi, had also spoken of Ram-Rahim.

Ambedkar said he had been 'surprised, immensely surprised' to find 'so much in common' between Gandhi and himself. 'If you devoted yourself entirely to the welfare of the Depressed Classes', Ambedkar said to Gandhi, 'you would become our hero'.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.

While one can do nothing about choosing one's relatives one can, as artist, choose one's "ancestors."

Penulis sama dengan orang-orang lain, kecuali untuk satu perbedaan kecil yang penting. Orang lain berpikir dan merasa setiap hari, tetapi mereka tidak melakukan apa-apa dengan itu. Sebaliknya, penulis bereaksi.

Writing words is like flying, Rachel thought. Words aren't solid. Words are lighter than air. But even so, they can sometimes give you a lift.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

Henrik Ibsen hung a picture of August Strindberg over his desk. "He is my mortal enemy and shall hang there and watch while I write!" explained Ibsen.

I prefer a man who is unskillful, who is an awkward writer, but who has something to say, who is dealing himself one time on every page.