Quotes About Inspiration

God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better.

Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own.

One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

Anemone Cave, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

Il vuoto è l'inizio di tutte le cose.

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best for writing fiction.

La letteratura, poi, ha questo di bello: che puoi riacciuffarla in un momento qualunque del tuo percorso, che non scade mai, che non abbandona mai davvero le librerie.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say.

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

The more you reason the less you create.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science and the second is art.

It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is ever happy anywhere.