Quotes About Inspiration

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.

I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to connect to my stories. I don't consciously think about age demographics when I'm working on my comics.

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.