Quotes About Inspiration

Looking at our faces you might have said we were all feverish and half mad, and perhaps you would have been right, but Helen's book made us feel we could rip the stars from the sky and write the world anew.

The thoughts came fast, and I caught them, stopping only once to sharpen my pencil with a penknife. I thought of Nell's euphoria and nearly laughed out loud. This little rush of words was the closest

I'd come to any sort of elation in the field.

Everyone becomes a genius when they die young.

WordsWorth. Darkness Visible

Good heavens,' he says. 'Is that what it's like with your writers? The word "snug" and you're mad in love?

Kay Boyle said once that a good story is both an allegory and a slice of life. Most writers are good at one, not the other. But you are doing both so beautifully here.

No escribo porque tenga algo que contar. Escribo porque si no lo hago, todo empeora mucho más.

I have no fears today,' I scribble...I'm stunned by the truth of it.

Mark Conseulos is so amazing.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Singing is exercise for the soul.

I can see no other reason for the existence of art and poetry and religion except as they tend to restore in us a freshness of vision and more emotional glamour and more vital sense of life.

I regard the discovery of one's favorite author as the most critical event in one's intellectual development.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Henry Clay is dead. His long and eventful life is closed. Our country is prosperous and powerful; but could it have been quite all it has been, and is, and is to be, without Henry Clay? Such a man the times have demanded, and such in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that in future national emergencies He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

your job is to be honest and to try not to be too boring. However, if you must choose between being eclectic and various or being repetitious and boring, be repetitious and boring. Most good poets are, if read very long at one sitting.

here to read the rest of the story!

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive -- it's leadership!

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

We are no longer kidnapped, for we walk with God and his spirit lives inside us.

Think of the miraculous ways God could use you if you were able to hold on to who you are in Christ.