Quotes About Inspiration

Christina Baker Kline

The ghosts whispered to me, telling me to go on.

Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley. Our teacher made us memorize the words to "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and alone in the kitchen now I close my eyes and whisper Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time . . . but that's all I can remember.

Other resources I relied on during my orphan train research were the Children's Aid Society; the New York Foundling (I attended their 140th homecoming in 2009 and met a number of train riders there); the New York Tenement Museum;

The poet Swinburne said that spring begins 'blossom by blossom.

I have read your fantastical book "Mirror Mirror" with awe and applause! Working with you on my regional TV show for a year was a godsend...you are an inspiration. All success.

I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.

Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.

You can always fix crap. You can't fix a blank page.

Rumi, the great Sufi poet, wrote: Today like every other day we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.

For me, there is no separation. Writing is the center… But it's all critical.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

When wombats do inspire/I strike my disused lyre

Sam,' said Saul fervently, 'when you talk, you know you create a world.

When Fate held out her hand, he made it a rule to take that hand with whatever it held, for Fate always had a lesson for him, just as every book that fell on its face open, and every scrap of muddy newsprint blowing in the wind and even every shop sign might hold a message for him, because the Word was sacred to him; and whatever that message might be, he was not one to turn his face away, but he smiled at Fate, for he believed Fate was on his side.

Christina Wilsdon

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what you need done and let them surprise you

It's that ideas are easier to come up with than you think. What's hard — really hard— is moving from an idea to reality.