Quotes About Inspiration

The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.

To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

Students can't dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits - or even paper, pencils, and paste.

Having students was so inspiring.

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

We get notes sent to us backstage from college students that say, 'My parents used to play your albums all the time! I grew up with you, and I love the new stuff.'

I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

I always forgave my students, like Jesus.

I always tell my students that, in fiction, the opening is a clue to the work's DNA: not only what it is, but what it will become, where it will lead you.

When any artist performs for students, it automatically means they are getting a young crowd.

I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.