Quotes About Inspiration

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling with musical language seems to me the highest achievement.

On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up.

The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to anyone, and it's not surprising to me either, but knowing this, feeling this, definitely made writing my second book harder.

It's a little surprising to me that I'm the first Houstonian to be an astronaut.

Sometimes surprising an actor in a good way like that can actually create a response you're not expecting.

So many things influence me in one way or another. Some might be surprising, but that's OK.

I kept a lot of my ideas to myself because I honestly thought no one cared. So it was surprising to find out that people did! Now I know that I can do anything, and I want other people to feel the same.

Mesut is a player that always keeps giving his best and is always surprising everyone and he's a player that we're very grateful and very lucky to have.

I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly.

'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

I find it remarkable. It's surreal for me that I've gotten to work with so many people who are not only great filmmakers but whose films have had such a direct effect on me.

It is so rewarding to have a community that I can interact with. Whether it's meeting them in person or reading their comments, it's all so surreal and humbling.

Serena's arguably the best athlete of all time, so getting to know her was surreal.

People tell me I'm their idol and a huge inspiration - that's really surreal.

Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.

When I was offered to sing 'Tere Bina' in 'Guru' by A. R. Rahman sir, it was a surreal experience. The song clicked, and many composers took notice of me and my work then.

Life is surreal and beautiful.

I went to many games with my dad, Kevin, and looked up to the players. It's surreal that now young fans are looking up to me.

Jeff Bridges is one of those icons that I put on a very high pedestal, so just to get to chill with him off-camera on cold, rainy days was surreal.