Quotes About Inspiration

My pity was quickly exceeded by a kind of righteous rage, which is a dangerous emotion, clouding judgment, precluding caution. In this condition, which I do not seek, which frightens me, which comes over me as though I have been possessed, I can't turn away from what must be done. I plunge. My friends, those few who know my secrets, think my compulsion has a divine inspiration. Maybe it's just temporary insanity.

This next one's by someone named Anatole France. 'To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.'

He said, "Sometimes it takes a lot of distance to be able to fold a piece of your life into a work of fiction.

Lee Shacket

because the truth of the sender's motives

a German shepherd—that lost one leg in a violent encounter

Lisa Chelgrin.

we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

stamps, paintings—not least of all because he was eighty-nine and had spent his life learning.

Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine. You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind. She

As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul.

However, as there is no end to the beauty that some can create, so there also is no end to the horrors that others

Jim Jamison, like Ed, loved music and art and history.

She stiffened her resolve with a line of Eliot's verse: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Raising Amity provided sufficient meaning to make any life worth living. He didn't say as much to Amity

actually Dorian Purcell.

They were stories of things that had never happened and could never happen, but she told them with such quiet verve and conviction that we believed them and wanted to continue believing even after time robbed us of our sense of wonder.

no act of creation was finer or more beautiful than the creation of an intelligent mind.

Mozart's concerto K. 453

Ms. Kate DiCamillo

Libby is just a girl, but it was a girl of her age who raised the siege of Orléans in 1428 and broke the English army, and no one can say what a girl might have the capacity to endure or achieve.

AN ARTIST IS A MATHEMATICIAN WHO KNOWS THE FORMULAS OF THE SOUL

To create good fiction, you have to like people enough to want to write about the human condition—but close yourself alone in a room for a large part of your life to get the job done right.

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