Quotes About Inspiration

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

It's just nice to see something from paper come to life on the screen.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

'Ghost City' began as a idea. I felt that I hadn't read or heard a great deal about the sort of life that I thought I had, and I just thought that it would be interesting to sit down and see if I could put it down onto paper.

Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.

The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now, your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.

Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.

I'll hear a beat and think, 'How can I make this a banger?' I'll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it's going to be a slapper.

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.