Quotes About Inspiration

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Gorky is a forerunner—the most powerful in our time.

A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One's fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice.

ISAAC BABEL was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist.

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

The wastepaper basket is the writer's best friend.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.