Quotes About Inspiration

My hands were starting to shake a little. Because I hadn't known that I knew these things. Just having a notebook to write them in, and having someone to write them to, made them all rise to the surface.

Roaming the streets of Manhattan on foot had always been one of my favorite ways to find inspiration. There's so much to see and smell (not all of it pleasant, except this time of year, which smells of roasted cashews, crisp air, and gingerbread lattes).

That's a nice quote," Langston said. "Underline it and fold down the page for me, will you?" I did as instructed.

But I couldn't concentrate on writing in the notebook. I wanted to live inside it, not write in it.

Memo to Merle Haggard: Miracles really do happen. I

Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood, or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books.

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

Tap Life on the shoulders and fall a little more in love.

The words of prayer are like birds, Ester," he said gently. "They soar.

This blessing," she said to him. "To dream such glad dreams that you wake laughing.

He took it between his fingers, bore down with his bruised knuckle on its ridges, and like a miner picking his way toward an unknown destination began to write—slowly, steadily, filling the void with work. Was that what sadness did to a man?

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374

Nihilism is not the last word. The last word is imagination.

A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.

Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never know you'd had

Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never known you'd had.

The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound.

she took what she gave and she gave what she took, yes, but sometimes she gave just a little bit more – and that little bit more is the whole art of teaching, the whole art of living, in fact, and Miss Puddleton knew it.

Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement. One could say things in writing without feeling self-conscious, without feeling shy and ashamed and foolish -- one could even write of the days of young Nelson, smiling a very little as one did so.

A la Virgen María: Que eres mi timonel, que eres la guía de mi oculta sirena cantadora, escrito está en la frente de la proa de mi navío, al Sol del mediodía

Cuando dos poetas se conocen y se dan la mano por vez primera, es como si dos corrientes trasangélicas tropezaran, fundiéndose.

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the grandmother of desperation.

For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light. The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret... It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.

We've only been sitting here forty minutes. I'm never at the morning table less than an hour and a half. I do some of my finest plotting over breakfast coffee and raisin brioche.