Quotes About Inspiration

the gift from Vergennes, staring

Chamberlain

Dammit, you've got a job to do! He tried to pull energy—confidence—from the faces of the others, even from men who had never done this before.

Words are the most important thing we have. A few words, one word, can change history.

If you ever go there, go to the Philosopher's walk. Away from all the tourists and crowds. It's a place that smells of that most beautiful smell, the smell of thought.

She jotted this down in her ubiquitous notebook.

Hm. How about jewelry? Do they make jewelry out of lava?" None of them had ever heard of that

His best work bore the stamp of John O'Hara and John P. Marquand.

studio and the junkyards

Challenge every writ, and let it not be said of you, I walked a path but never left an imprint.

Winston Churchill had once told him, "An important speech should take an hour to write for every minute it took to deliver, while at the same time, dear boy, you must leave your audience convinced it was off the cuff.

Faulkner didn't put those

George Bernard Shaw which Annabel quoted so often: "Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.

Twenty-one Short Stories by Graham Greene.

Stanley Matthews

he continued to think about his father. No son could have asked for a better mentor or friend. When he looked back on his life, all his actions, judgments and decisions were nothing more than pale imitations of his father's.

next to Wainwright, who was already

pencil hadn't stopped scribbling

Jeffrey Young, Ph.D. Cognitive Therapy Center of New York 3 East 80th Street, Penthouse New York, New York 10021

Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

To start with, look at all the books.

We stood silent. After a moment I said, Real Geniuses never think they're geniuses. Who says? Me. Because why? Because genius is nine-tenths perspiration. Haven't you ever heard that? As soon as you think you're a genius, you slack off. You think everything you do is so great and everything.

There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.