Quotes About Inspiration

You can pick up a book but a book can throw you across the room. A book can move you from a comfortable armchair to a rocky place where the sea is. A book can separate you from your husband, your wife, your children, all that you are. It can heal you out of a lifetime of pain. Books are kinetic, and like all huge forces, need to be handled with care.

You don't have to get into writing – it's not like a pair of jeans... The only way to write is to write – the rest may or not follow.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural intelligence, the side of truth, no matter what success I have, there is a prize which I cannot fail to win. I will find it in the depths of my heart.

Mis sentimientos se acomodaron con una rapidez inconcebible al tono de mis ideas. El entusiasmo por la verdad, la libertad y la virtud ahogó todas mis pequeñas pasiones; y lo mas sorprendente es que esta efervescencia subsistió en mi corazón durante más de cuatro o cinco años, llegando a tan alto grado como jamás haya existido en otro corazón humano. Escribí

Me preguntó si había copiado música alguna vez. Respondíle que a menudo, y era la verdad: el mejor modo como podía aprenderla era copiándola.

Rien de vigoureux, rien de grand ne peut partir d'une plume toute vénale.

Este favor del público, de ningún modo buscado, y para un autor desconocido, me inspiró la primera confianza verdadera en mi capacidad, de que había dudado hasta entonces, a pesar del sentimiento interno.

Es singular que nunca se remonte más agradablemente mi imaginación como cuando me hallo en un estado menos agradable; y, al contrario, cuando todo ríe en derredor mío, entonces es menos risueña mi fantasía. Mi mala cabeza no puede sujetarse a la realidad. No puede embellecer, necesita crear.

Figurábanse que yo podía escribir por oficio, como los demás literatos, cuando jamás he sabido escribir sino movido por la pasión

mi trabajo desigual y sin arte tan pronto era sublime como trivial, como debe serio el de cualquiera que sólo posee arranques de genio y no se halla sostenido por la ciencia.

He examinado -dice- a los poetas y los miro como personas cuyo talento impone a las demás y a ellas mismas, que se las dan de sabias, a las que se tiene por tales, cuando tienen menos de eso que de ninguna otra cosa. De los poetas -continúa Sócrates- he

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

Full to the brim with hope and love and joy, she watched the little light bulb shining like a promise in the night.

Church of the Fiery Vision.

If anything made that country habitable it was the mountains themselves, purple when the sun dropped and so sharply etched in the morning light the granite dazzled almost more than the bright snow lacing it. The nearest peaks rose ten thousand feet higher than the valley floor, with Whitney, the highest, just off to the south. They were important for all of us, but especially for the Issei. Whitney reminded Papa of Fujiyama, that is, it gave him the same kind of spiritual sustenance.

Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

When Dad wasn't telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle.

I never met a kid I couldn't teach. Every kid was good at something, and the trick was to find out what it was, then use it to teach him everything else. It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the next day.

I think you'd make a wonderful teacher. You have a strong personality. The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers.