Quotes About Inspiration

A good movie had never once affected me in the same life-changing way a good book could. Books had the power to alter my view of the world forever. A great movie could change my perceptions for a day.

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

She saw the world through a dazzling prism of authentic imagination.

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.

My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the central book in her life, and made it the central book in her family.

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

Reading Tolstoy makes us strive to be better people: better husbands and wives, children, and friends. He tries to teach us how to live by letting us participate in the brimming, storied experiences of his fictional world. Reading Leo Tolstoy, you will encounter a novelist who fell in love with his world and everything he saw and felt in it.

Generally, writers descend from a lesser tribe, and whatever claim to beauty we have shows up on the printed page far more often than it does in our mirrors. Even as I writer these words I think of dozens off writers, both male and female, who make a mockery of this generalization. But comeliness among writers is rare enough to be noteworthy.

Because I've gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing.

She took my hand and squeezed it. "You sold yourself short. You could've been more than a teacher and a coach." I returned the squeeze and said, "Listen to me, Savannah. There's no word in the language I revere more than teacher. None. My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming one.

?ia ir pamilau tas knygas ir autorius taip, kaip moka ir supranta tik ilgame?iai skaitytojai. Geras filmas n? sykio man?s nepaliet? ir nepakeit? taip, kaip gera knyga. Knygos geb?davo amžiams keisti mano poži?r? ? pasaul?. Geras filmas mano pasaulio suvokim? pakeisdavo dienai.

As her children, we were the trustees of her dazzling evensongs of the imagination, but we did not know that mothers dreamed.

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.

I've always felt a vague sense of guilt that I search for plunder and inspiration in every book or poem or story I pick up. Other people's books are treasures when stories emerge in molten ingots that a writer can shape to fit his or her own talents. Magical theft has always played an important part of my own writer's imagination.

As for now, I feel the first itch of the novel I'm supposed to write—the grain of sand that irritates the soft tissues of the oyster. The beginning of the world as I don't quite know it. But I trust I'll begin to know it soon.

terrace above the Red Lion Bookshop observing

She honored the margins; the wild side made all the difference.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

The music acted as a marinade in my weary spirit.

Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds.

Teaching is a record of failures. But the glory of teaching is in the attempt.