Quotes About Inspiration

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles.

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.

I believe that the work of the Holy Spirit, through the church, will continue on.

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

I like the idea that my work isn't intended only for the Earth, but for the entire Universe.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

It's important for me to get back to my fans here and around the world. I feel very, very blessed that so many people have continued to write me and to pour out their love for me and my work.

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.