Quotes About Inspiration

every work of art is a work of perfect necessity.

To present a whole world that doesn't exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we're polymaths. That's just the act of all good writing.

His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.

He feels it as a single indescribable shape, something brailled out for him against a ground or backdrop of he knows not what, and it hurts him, in the poet's phrase, like the world hurts God.

I had no idea that no one else would do it.

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I had read and admired Ballard and Burroughs, and I thought of them as very powerful effect pedals. You get to a certain place in the story and you just step on the Ballard.

Something she'd gotten from Burton

Aubrey Beardsley.

But I suppose that is the way of an artiste, no? You needed this world built for you, this beach, this place. To die.

subgenres are products of the writers' urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic

Neuromancer] is about the present. It's not really about an imagined future. It's a way of trying to come to terms with the awe and terror inspired […] by the world in which we live.

ancient television and withdrew a silver-black vacuum tube. "See this? Part of my DNA, sort of. . . ." He tossed the thing into the shadows and Case heard it pop and tinkle. "You're always building models. Stone circles. Cathedrals. Pipe-organs. Adding machines.

one can't really enjoy what science fiction does without being able to recognize the point at which the imaginary lifts off from the known.

and he lived in the trailer down by the creek.

few stray bits of Lego

The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble...

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life.

Le più grandi idee sono le più semplici.

O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

Las ideas más brillantes son siempre las más sencillas.

The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.