Quotes About Inspiration

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.

If you're a fan of my work and I'm a fan of your work, it just seems logical for us to work on something together.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

I honestly believe that all of my work have the type of impact that will allow me to create some unique opportunities.

In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.