Quotes About Inspiration

Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. For it must be very lonely being dead.

I hardly suppose Wagner lost sleep worrying whether he'd hurt someone's feelings. But then he was a genius.

Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you.

There is something about words.

I had realized that while books are extraordinary, writers themselves are no more or less special than anyone else.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child.

Las historias necesitan palabras. Sin ellas palidecen, enferman y mueren. Y luego te persiguen.

as though if I looked hard enough, there would be revealed in the grain or the watermark of the paper itself the elucidation of the mystery.

Readers,' continued Miss Winter, 'are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. It must be allowed to decay.

I'm a storyteller." "I am a biographer.

The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours.

To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.

Everyone creates what he fears.

Dianne Jacob

Set the highest example. Remember, no one ever did anything absolutely right. Perfection is impossible, but striving for perfection is not. You have the power to do that.

Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.

Just joined. More later.

I've never believed in God. But I believe in Picasso.

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

By contrast, Blanche K. Bruce was the real deal. Born into slavery in Virginia, Bruce was freed by his master and studied at Oberlin College before becoming a successful farmer and landowner. He is the only former slave to have served in the U.S. Senate.

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart. In your writing and your life.

Dinty W. Moore

Mister Sensei Essay Writer Guy opens his eyes momentarily, smiles, and says, "When you are not writing, be thoroughly not writing; when you are writing, be writing through and through.

It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of a childhood living room. When you think that you are in the grace of a dance you come upon something hard.