Quotes About Inspiration

If I were asked to name people whom I considered true Christians, the name 'George Orwell' is one of the first that would come to my mind.

It is best for a man to try to be both poet and naturalist — not to be too much of a naturalist and so overlook the beauty of things, or too much of a poet and so fail to understand them or even perceive those hidden beauties only revealed by close observation.

Her journal is my journal. All mine is stale reading now. She has written down all my thoughts and forestalled me! Already I have found some heart-rending parallels. To think I am only a replica: how humiliating for a human being to find himself merely a duplicate of another.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear. But the words on the page have no connection to the person who wrote them. Writers live other peoples' lives for them.

I live. I write. I watch old movies. I read. I watch the sunset. I watch the moon rise.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear. But the words on the page have no connection to the person who wrote them. Writers live other peoples' lives for them. I don't write autobiography.

I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

and I was looking up out of a time of late blessings

he suggested I pray to the Muse get down on my knees and pray right there in the corner and he said he meant it literally

How It Happens" The sky said I am watching to see what you can make out of nothing I was looking up and I said I thought you were supposed to be doing that the sky said Many are clinging to that I am giving you a chance I was looking up and I said I am the only chance I have then the sky did not answer and here we are with our names for the days the vast days that do not listen to us

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

The hour has come when energy and pure love are needed.

Let your creative juices flow and don't be afraid to take chances!

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

When I became successful as a model in the United States, I knew that my chance to be heard had come and so I took it.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you cant afford it, you can get a scholarship.

In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.