Quotes About Inspiration

I get up, and if I feel out of sorts, I'll do some exercises, I'll feed my cat, then I go get my coffee, take a notebook, and write for a couple of hours.

If I was at school and one of my friends said something funny, I'd write it down in a notebook and take it to the writers meetings. I never told my friends about it. I just thought I could incorporate stuff that was true to life.

Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk.

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

I sleep with a notebook next to me, and most nights I sleep with my guitar next to me.

I don't know what I'd do without my little black notebook.

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies.

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe.

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.

I make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible.

A lot of Filipinas are really into fashion, and there are so many noted Filipino designers around the world.

When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it music.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.