Quotes About Inspiration

We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

When you are feeling down, look at the skies. You are not always alone.

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

There's a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!

An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.

Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course

You can do amazing things when people love you.

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.