Quotes About Inspiration

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

I've always said that music is like literature.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

Everybody draws when they are little.

Somehow most of my fans are little children and I love that.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being an elf.

Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting.

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.

I've wanted to go to space, really, since I was a little girl.

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

I don't know a lot of people who achieve what they have really dreamed of as a little girl.

When I was a little girl growing up in Elmira, I always wanted to be a lawyer.