Quotes About Inspiration

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and the chef has long since moved on, but it is the perfect bar to have a couple of glasses of wine in a quiet corner while she gets out her notepad and jots down ideas. She needs ideas because time is running out. She needs to find a big story, and fast. Cat perches at the bar itself for the first glass of wine, surprised it disappears so quickly, taking a little longer over the

She noticed the sun going down, and for once she looked at the sky. She stopped and mentioned to herself how blue it was, how if you could reach up and taste the color of dusk you might turn into something shimmering and silver; you might be transformed into the moon itself.

The contrast between the restrictions placed on him by his shrunken frame and his croaking speech on the one hand, and the power of his mind which allowed him to roam the outer reaches of the universe on the other, provided a fertile source for many imaginative flights of fanciful prose. Moreover

think of daily life as an ever-moving three-dimensional painting with you as the artist

we human beings have the blessed creative capacity to do so much better. So why don't we?" 2.

Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist.

If you don't furnish your brain with what everyone knows, then it will furnish itself with what no one else knows!

Eavesdropping is a habit fiction writers get into. Fiction writing will lead you into a number of socially unacceptable practices.

Any work of art, said her grandfather,must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.

Someday, Joseph said to his granddaughter, someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something happens and we have to respond.

Like the piano player, I have memory in my fingertips. I watch words spill out creating worlds, inventing colors, bridging generations.

I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth.

Live, he whispered. For my Chaya. For all our Chayas. Live. And remember.

If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling -- as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

The only duty of the dreamer is to tell the truth about the dream.

Write, write, & write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

The Baba gives me paper, and a pen that sputters ink. Write, she says, tell the true Though you may have to lie to do it.

The storyteller in me asks: what if? And when I try to answer that, a story begins

You want to tell this story, perhaps now you will.

I rented Ghostbusters, my all-time favorite inspirational movie. I picked up some microwave, popcorn, a KitKat, a bag of bite-sized Reese's peanut butter cups, and a box of instant hot chocolate with marshmallows. Do I know how to have a good time, or what?

She'd wanted to grow up to be a superhero, and in a left-turn kind of way she felt like she was on track.

I don't get writer's block because I don't believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.