Quotes About Inspiration

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

For a long time I've concentrated on how small I am, how little I have to offer," Vicki continued. "That's not the point. The point is how big God is and what he wants to do." Shelly

A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle To a double-e waterfall over my back

Ainda não sei ao certo de onde vêm as piadas. Talvez de uma mistura emocional de tédio, agressividade, intensa acuidade visual e outro tipo de agilidade da mente que nos permite transformar o que vemos naquilo que queremos ver

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

So, he said, we ourselves will be the candle flames. He put his hands on his chest. Feel your hearts, how warm they are.

He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade

It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against.

She taught me to revel She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh

She taught me to revel.

Could life get any worse? She had read that great literature often comes out of great tragedy. If that was true, well, Shakespeare better move over.

Jerry Spinelli

The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode.

Such a man became a leader, one of the great men, who guided people in their thoughts and deeds, as a weaver guides his colored threads through the intricacies of the pattern.

I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.

world tasting like hope and blue sky. Turn it up! Your hips can't help but wiggle. Man, it feels like that song was written for you, like you're gorgeous and loved and the entire planet is in order.

My head was just circling things, so I had to pull out all those squirming thoughts and nail 'em to the paper.

Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.

Maybe it's being close to the end, but I have this desire to pull Greg aside—to pull all my children aside, and my grandchildren—and to whisper something profound, to pass on the great wisdom I've acquired. Something that would open their hearts and create in them an unassailable courage, a generosity of spirit, faith in humanity.

Imagine truth as a chain of great mountains, their tops way up in the clouds. Writers explore these truths, always looking out for new paths up these peaks.

And do you have opinions that John Locke didn't write first?

All art is personal. Otherwise, what's the point?

It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire.