Quotes About Inspiration

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

The kind of stories I like often comes from debutant directors.

I sort of was inspired by 'Friday Night Lights,' where it was a very different show, but similar in that they were both large ensemble dramas where you had many stories going on at once. I wanted to do a show that shared that element, and that's really why I wanted to develop 'Parenthood' as a series.

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

We don't do this kind of work for awards or to be recognised. We do this to share stories with the world.

There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly heroic. There have to be those stories for girls, too.

The Lion King is one of my favorite stories ever.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

I think Hollywood, I think America in general, they love redemption stories.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

My little book of stories, 'Souls in the Twiligh,' may have to stand in for all the other things I have wanted to write in my retirement.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

I'm ready to take the world by storm and have them look at me and say, 'Deaf people can dance.'

I want the legacy of Chi Chi Devayne to be a damn good performer that came from nowhere and took the world by storm.