Quotes About Inspiration

I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles in the theater I'd like to play but I don't know if I'll ever get to do it.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She's been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I'm a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

Only work with projects you love. That will make your creativity blend with your vitality, and the project will create itself.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

Woman work a great many miracles.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess.

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

My worst work happens when I get obedient.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings.

Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.