Quotes About Inspiration

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Fill the brain with high thoughts and highest ideals place them day and night before you and out of that will come great work

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it, think of it, and live on that alone. Let the brain, the muscles, the nerves and indeed every part of your body be full of that idea, to the exclusion of every other idea. That indeed is the way to success, and that is how the great spiritual giants are produced.

Don't look back only forward! Infinite energy infinite enthusiasm infinite daring and infinite patience then alone can great deeds be accomplished

Arise awake and do not stop until you achieve your Goal.

This book is for Randall Jarrell, the man who believed we are devoted to the act of making literature because it leads to the act of reading.

The life we lead as writers is awful—it's boring, tedious, lonely," -Vivian Gornick

Come quasi tutti i lettori, a volte ho la sensazione di essere nata leggendo".

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I had just vividly demonstrated to myself what a tremendous force faith is, and how easy it is to awaken. You just need to know a little bit more than the ones who are supposed to believe. Then it's easy to work miracles.

Kolmogorov – Poincaré – Gauss – Euler – Newton, are only five lives separating us from the source of our science.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.