Quotes About Inspiration

Poeta é aquele cara que vem atrás pegando o que usamos todos os dias e jogamos fora, e quando você se vira vê uma catedral de tampinhas de garrafa.

O Jorge Luis Borges dizia que o escritor publica seus livros para livrar-se deles, para não ficar reescrevendo-os ao infinito. Mas Borges, que nunca fez um texto muito longo, foi um grande exemplo de quem sempre soube onde parar.

Gosto muito de uma frase do Zuenir Ventura, que diz que ele não gosta de escrever, gosta de ter escrito. O ato de escrever não me dá muito prazer, não. Bom é ter escrito.

Sempre escrevemos para recordar a verdade. Quando inventamos, é para recordá-la mais exatamente.

Insisto: la gente mediocre es más peligrosa que los malvados. Voy a escribir mil veces en mi diario que necesito huir de la mediocridad, huir de la mediocridad, huir de la mediocridad.

El arte es el intento de explicar lo inefable.

Si quieren ser albañiles, decidles que arquitectos, y si arquitectos que ministros de la vivienda. No permitáis nunca que se cumpla el afán, no pongáis los sueños al alcance de los niños para que nunca sean tan miserables como vosotros...

Un escritor es, más que nada, alguien que posee el don del asombro y sabe transmitirlo. El don de singularizar lo que ve. Porque las cosas esconden siempre algún secreto, un detalle, algo que las hace únicas y que el artista debe descubrir.

Y de mis autores más queridos, a los que vengo leyendo y releyendo desde hace tantos años? ¿Qué podría decir yo de Cervantes, de Kafka, de Shakespeare, de Dickens, de Faulkner, de Conrad, de Chéjov, de Borges, de Quevedo...? Apenas nada. Ni siquiera me he parado a pensar en ello.

conducir es liderar, no es dar órdenes.

Santa Paciencia Nati, la que hay que tener cuando se te vienen estas ideas.

Nadie quiere cambiar las cosas?

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

The act of writing and the act of love… are one and the same. Equivalent enquiry, similar search.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin." -In the yellow time of pollen

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.

There has never been a time in my career when I have faced the empty page and not been scared. I was scared as a junior-coassistant-copy-cub-intern. And I'm scared today.