Quotes About Inspiration

He liked the way the story unfolded as he wrote, liked the way the answers just came to him sometimes, out of the blue, like they were true things just waiting to be discovered by him.

Talk to me," I say. "Tell me another fairy tale. Tell me something.

He remembered her with ink-stained fingers and a messy apartment full of paperbacks.

Polyhymnia's

You've delivered your message. I have no big of doggerel to send back- my own fault for having a seneschal who cannot double as my Court Poet- but I will be sure to crumple up some paper and drop it into the water when I do.

You did a brave thing. Be glad of that. Not everyone can be brave. I'm not always.

Brambleweft starts to sketch- billowing skirts and cunning little capes, corsets stitched with fanciful creatures. Butterflies alighting along arms and in elaborate headpieces. I am charmed at the alien vision of myself- my corset will have two golden beetles stitched in what looks like a breastplate, with Madoc's moon crest and elaborate swirls of shining thread continuing down my front, and tiny sheer drop sleeves of more gold.

He made me into a story, and now I am going to make a story out of someone else

If I can't find a good enough story I make one.

He said that all the story had gone out of me.

If I can't find a good enough story, I make one.

He made me into a story, and I am going to make a story out of someone else.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

and I learned more at the hands of Carl Wilson than I learned from anybody else. He taught me a fuck of a lot of guitar playing. That man is a good guitar player.

Follow your dreams!

Amanda was in the forefront of my

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great... ...and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves. THAT is why you write fiction.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.

Write with joy

The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.

Your transformation will be the miracle.

see the blessing and beauty that you are.