Quotes About Inspiration

I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.

I get so much energy to work harder when I meet and greet younger kids because they like me with such innocent hearts.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.

Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.