Quotes About Inspiration

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

I've always looked up to Dr. Reita Faria, the first Asian to win the Miss World crown. Despite many offers from the glamour industry, she followed her passion and went on to become a gynaecologist.

I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.

I'd always also been interested in being in the army because my dad was in the army and my brother is an officer in the army.

As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words.

Once I came out in sports, I basically told myself, 'I'm coming out, officially. I wanted to be able to look in the mirror and tell myself that I was being true to me. I wanted to help the younger me, when I was a kid, give them somebody for them to look up to.

We work pretty fast. I might be working, and I might knock out two, three songs. Quavo might come in two, three himself. Offset might come and do the same.

In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do something. You don't really have to do that. You can make it all the time. And 99 percent of the time, it's not going to be a big deal on a global scale. But 100 percent of the time, it's going to make you feel amazing.

Michael Schultz's 'Cooley High' is a classic. Oftentimes, we don't get to see films about coming of age, especially for young African Americans.

Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.

Oftentimes, my career as a model is based around glamour or creating a fantasy world. That in itself is not a bad thing, as I think art and inspiration has its place in society.

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

The first record with an artist oftentimes can be the most exciting. When it's not routine for them, when it's really new is the best moment in their careers.

Oh! blame not the bard.

I bow to Jesus in gratitude, and I say, 'Oh Lord, you are great.' It touches me, and it lifts me up because I am hungry for more.

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.