Quotes About Inspiration

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

The common factor in all these manifestations of intuition is a sort of ski jump—a soaring take-off from the known and established, ending in a swooping arrival at an advanced point, with the intervening steps apparently left out. Those steps are not really left out, of course; they are performed in and by the unconscious, often with extraordinary speed, and the result of the unconscious processes pops into the conscious mind with an effect of inspiration and certainty.

extraverts (EST) organize the situation itself, including any idle bystanders, and get things rolling

But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.

In your eyes I see myself become what I always dreamed I could be.

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

I have said that one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great man is that his active intervention makes what seemed highly improbable in fact happen.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

A great artist is never poor.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

When I was young, my father used to say, 'If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.' I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn't know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.

We must strive to be like the moon

We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

We will leap tall couplets in a single bound

Writin' is fightin'.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

No text without inspiration

I can just hear Aaron saying that it's slight compared with the big topics they usually tackle." "Slight!" I almost shouted. "Why is it that people always think bad, dark things are more real and important than things that lift you up and make you feel life is worth living? You ought to tell them that in a song.

The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.