Quotes About Inspiration

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story'.

He tells me that teaching is the art of theft: of knowing what to steal and from whom.

If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man. He remembered words which for four months he had not heard, read, or uttered, the most beautiful words in the language - faith and hope.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

He dreamed big dreams - impossible dreams they told him. Then he moved heaven and earth to make his dreams come true. When you, as a leader, start with a vision, then communicate that vision to the people you lead, utilize your people skills to motivate and inspire them, maintain your character and integrity at every decision-point, command with competence, lead with boldness and confidence, and support your people with your serving heart, your vision will become your reality.

If each of us would dream big dreams, approach life with hope and confidence, and persevere until our dreams come true, then we would not only be more like Walt, but we would become the people God created us to be.

Creativity is not so much an ability as a state of awareness.

Mickey was not merely the right idea at the right time; he was the creative solution to a crisis in Walt's life.

The great secret is this: it is not enough to have intuitions; we must act on them; we must live them.

He closed his grade book and asked hopefully, What inspired you? Was it Hawthorne? I stared at him. He had to be kidding.

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

It's remote! It's remote! It's uncontaminated! It's pure! It's a place where we can rule out that Muhammad got his ideas from others than God!

You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

Patricia H. Rushford

In my reading, I sought a contemporary, someone who lived what I thought of as my "other life," the one not lived, but so lavishly imagined and desired that it felt not like another life, but a version of my own. You feel—I did—deep contentment when you find such a life expressed by a writer who has lived it, as if in reading that life you (sort of) live it too.

It's strange that we still believe in inspiration when, compared to earlier ages, we seem to believe in so little. Inspiration may be the one bit of God we haven't managed to kill off.

Carol looked at her. How do you become a poet? By feeling things - too much, I suppose, Therese answered conscientiously.

I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine.

His stories were good because he imagined them intensely, so intensely that he came to believe them.

I create things out of boredom with reality and with the sameness of routine and objects around me.

I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out of it.

Writing is a way of organizing experience and life itself.

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if...What if...' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.