Quotes About Inspiration

This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true.

Annus Mirabilis." The year of wonders.

Story is the best magic there is.

We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.

This was loss that ruined your life leading straight to gain that saved it. It wasn't silver lining; it was a whole silver sky.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know.

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard. Otherwise, what's the point of stories? They want to help little boys go to sleep. They want to help stubborn mamas fall in love with dads. They want to teach people things and make them laugh and cry.

I don't mean you inspire people with how brave you are or any bullshit like that. I mean you are mindful, and mindful is contagious. You have perspective, so the people around you seek some too. Your effort is apparent, which reminds people of its virtue and necessity.

The Ashawala'i call that feeling 'being struck by lightning.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

It never occurred to me that others had done this before me.

My theory is that a strong healthy man isn't likely to be creative. It is illness and pain that encourages him to live another life.

Of all the things I wish for her, above all, I want her to know and love the sea.

Whether you are at play in the fields of the Lord or standing next to home plate squinting at the popping pitcher, that sudden, immediate knowing can also help you envision the outcome.

Whatever the circumstance, there are seeds of meaning, even to our very last breath.

Laurie Paige

However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

I was merely going to say that I hope you realise that guilt is a poor foundation for a life, without other motivations beside it.

It never even occurred to me until I got the idea for the first Psychic Eye mystery to turn my experiences as a down to earth,(somewhat) levelheaded psychic into a saleable story. And once I got the idea -- the whole thing just snowballed and it all happened very, very fast.

That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're headed with this, but I don't think it's there yet. Dig deeper, babe, and come back with something more." And that's what you do, you dig waaaaaaaay down and you walk around the block eight million times and then you have it -- shazam! And it all comes together in something soooo much better than you thought you were capable of.

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

None of my friends knows that most of the sick days I've taken from work are not sick days, but Austen days.

Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there.