Quotes About Inspiration

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

I've been thinking about 'The Jetsons' since I was a kid. But occasionally, you want 'The Jetsons' to come to reality. That's what Apple is so great at: Productizing things and bringing them to you so you can be a part of it.

It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that.

Music has healed me on so many different occasions, and I want my music to be able to do that for someone else.

When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.

Art is not what most people think it to be. It is not an occupation of one-railed people.

Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.

My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away

Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business.