Quotes About Inspiration

There was a time when I would sit with my books and immediately put them away. I'm not dyslexic, but I was like that child in 'Taare Zameen Par.' Coincidentally, the character's name was also Ishaan.

You can't really take it for granted that people listen to your music. I want to write songs that are on par, at least in my mind, with the ones I've loved for my whole life and that will be around forever.

I find that 'Taare Zameen Par' is one of the most beautiful movies ever made about the inner world of a child.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

Coldplay was big for me in the 2000s. 'Parachutes' was a good album.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.

I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Instead of looking to male mentors, saying this is the paradigm of a candidate and it looks like this, we're suddenly finding that there's some powerful female mentors - and they look a little different.

Your library is your paradise.

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

Africa is a paradise. You meet people who look at life differently. They love the adventure.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in our words and power in what we put out into the world.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

When I wrote 'Paradise,' it was going to be an interlude - like a segue from the song before. Then I just added more to it because everyone loved it.

All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.

And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.