Quotes About Inspiration

The beautiful result often astonishes us when our mind becomes oblivious to the work done with our heart.

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.