Quotes About Inspiration

I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.

I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting.

If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable.

Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny.

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.