Quotes About Inspiration

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.

Actually, I really wanted to play against Venus because I have so much respect for both Serena and Venus.

With Venus and Serena and their ascension - and you had a lot of kids that saw them and wanted to be like them - it's like any sport, any major athlete, like Michael Jordan in basketball: everybody wanted to be like Mike.

If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous pieces, whether it be the 'Mona Lisa' or 'Venus Rising.'

I'll never be able to quantify how important 'Venus' was for me or my career. I ticked a huge box.

Like, no, I can really be queen of the universe. I can be president. I can be, I don't know, an alien from Venus. Like you could just seriously... and that's the fun of acting.

I feel like I've been very blessed in the sense that I've had the veracity of spirit to not be stopped and, at the same time, the protective energy and the generosity of those who have come before me, who saw something inside of me and, therefore, invited me into rooms that I would not have been inside of otherwise.

Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.

A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

I get verbal diarrhea in the writers' room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories and craziness, and we all double up on the floor laughing.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.

We grew up on Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett. You're making something about men on the verge of a nervous breakdown, you're going to look to those guys.

I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.

There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.

I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

My friends ask me what it's like moving from Vermont to L.A., but no matter where I am, I pretty much just end up sitting in coffee shops, thinking about songs.

I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.

In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.

I advise all my novel students to write in the company of 'Veronica Mars.'