Quotes About Inspiration

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.

If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and I'll discover mine someday.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

Art is emotion without desire.

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

Our desire to share the gospel takes all of us to our knees, and it should, because we need the Lord's help.

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Don't limit your imagination, the best part of your life, is living your desires.

Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire.

put out the candles with your fire—I'm on fire

I am a bed of sparks you breathe upon and kindle

you are the mysterious fire at my finger tips

burnt by the sunof your mouth, I'm unable to speak or paint you with words