Quotes About Inspiration

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.