Quotes About Inspiration

The only reason I wanted to go to college was so I could go to Notre Dame, and so after I graduate from Notre Dame I could go to heaven.

I've always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton's performance in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' so somewhere along the line, I've always wanted to play that character.

Three coaches at Notre Dame made a big difference in my life, not that I played any football when I attended Notre Dame. But Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz - they all made a difference to me, and I respected them for their attitudes about life and how they handled loss.

How could God give me a dream, a dream of going to Notre Dame, a dream of becoming somebody, and I'm a dummy, I'm nobody.

You see, my movie isn't about football, or about Notre Dame. It's about hope, about the human spirit.

We were able to change the mold of the regular season for Notre Dame basketball, so we thought, 'Why can't we do it in the postseason?'

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Music is nourishment.

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

I get most of my influences from specific genres. I listen to a lot of R&B music, obviously. But, jazz, and bossa nova music, too.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.