Quotes About Inspiration

maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.

How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

There was such art in the ordinary, it could leave you in tears.

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination.

The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

When you're an artist, it's because there's something inside you that you can't keep from spilling out. Maybe it comes in the form of sentences, or a grand jete, or stroke of a paintbrush. The end result can be a million different things. But the seed, it's always the same. It's the emotion there isn't a word for. The feeling that's too big for your body. To show someone your soul, you have to bleed. People who are comfortable, people who are content, they don't create art.

I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow - is the most powerful drug on this planet.

When you engage in work that you love, you are happy.

Arise and do thy sacred work.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Ninety percent of my work is crap, " he continued. "Another nine percent is mediocre, and then there are those rare gems that are actually useable.

Throw away the rule book and create your own.

Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.

Our shortcomings drive us, motivate us – to work harder or realize another purpose/talent.

Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.

There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.

These is nothing divine about deprecating your gifts and talents or diminishing their worth in any way. Shining is sharing an abundance with us all.

The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.