Quotes About Inspiration

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't get a handful of mud either.

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving ' and then you do it.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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active imagination

James Patterson

A snatch of Nietzsche came to him