Quotes About Inspiration

I believe less in my ability & more in the ability of the one who comes to meet me. That's the speciality of my work style.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.

I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.

I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.

I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.

Your work should be in praise of what you love.

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.