Quotes About Inspiration

Wonder Woman didn't begin in 1941 when William Moulton Marston turned in his first script to Sheldon Mayer. Wonder Woman began on a winter day in 1904 when Margaret Sanger dug Olive Byrne out of a snowbank.

One day I want to surprise everyone by doing something unexpected and amazing, so I can be proud of myself.

Are you angry? Because we do some of our best naked work when you're angry.

To the best readers on the planet—romance readers! I'm grateful to each one of you every single day.

If you have a why to live for… you can tolerate any how.

was deeply inspired by this story of a grandmother's faith now influencing the great-grandchildren she never even met. My frequent and

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

My imagination needs therapy.

When a group comes together around something they love," I said, "it changes things. It changes how they see one another. It becomes a community. Something greater than the sum of its parts.

It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it.

When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.

Because . . . fear is a terrible, insidious thing, Waldo. It taints and stains everything it touches. If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I said. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett.

Those who write them do," Ferus said. "They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature." He sniffed. "Most untidy, really—but assemble enough scraps and one might have something approaching a whole.

My imagination needs therapy.

Do you feel you should walk the same path because so many have walked it before you came

At the end of the day, the greatest power Harry has is in lifting up the people around him.

it—I was pretty much equipped, by experience and inclination, for mayhem.

What had changed things? What had made the difference? She had. All by herself.

Hope lets you do things you would otherwise never be able to do, gives strength when everything is darkest. In

I tried to take that as a life lesson: never underestimate the little people.

Time to start doing," I whispered.

Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy.

After Tolkien I went after C. S. Lewis. After Lewis, it was Lloyd Alexander. After them came Fritz Leiber, Roger Zelazny, Robert Howard, John Norman, Poul Anderson, David Eddings, Weis and Hickman, Terry Brooks, Elizabeth Moon, Glen Cook