Quotes About Inspiration

You want me to write something about him? Heavens, it was confusing enough when I had only my own characters to worry about!

For one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. The brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.

We make for your sake such things as stand fast, Through the ages these pages forever will last. On blank paper the printer sets down what is heard Giving life to what's rife with the power of the word. Michael Kongehl, 'On the White Art', Die Weisse und die Schwarze Kunst

They let him in without a word, their prince's poet, the man who put their world in ink words, and had made it out of words.

I just planted this story, but it's growing the way it wants to, and everyone expects me to know in advance what kind of flowers it will have!

And these hands here don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words, Meggie! Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm its creator!

We will never have the wealth of experience our immortal creators have. Yet I find comfort in the thought that this limited lifespan gives our minds, at times, refreshing freedom.

But we'd need words for that, exactly the right words, because only the right words unlock the doors between worlds.

do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. Pablo Neruda, "The Dead Woman," The Captain's

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Was there any more wretched existence than the life of a writer who had run out of words?

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

Everything good in the world comes from the efforts of people who came before us.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

In the presence of my muse, I no longer NEEDED to draw.

Now the birds & trees & the moroccan kitties are my muse.

If Paradise lies beneath the feet of the mothers -those tender feet of Dodola- then it's Hell that waits beneath mine.

A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second...

I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.

Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way.

The world will need a Hero, and it might as well be you.

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup,' snorted Old Wrinkly, 'only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imaginations... and I used to think of you as an imaginative boy. Give up, if you want to... but I used to think of you as the sort of boy who would NEVER give up, however bad things looked.