Quotes About Inspiration

Writers are thieves, We steal stories. We steal names. We steal scenes. We observe the world and we take what we need and modify it.

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Once she was settled and rested, she would plunge into her work and average at least a thousand words a day.

The spirit flowed more freely and made for a more spontaneous style of worship.

are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those who refuse to do so upon the theory that once a character is created he or she will do something interesting

unsurpassing beauty or quality, for hope and for ultimate triumph.

Within a week, six thousand men rallied to her cause.

Beneath it is a winged heart with a huge sapphire as its centerpiece

Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its own rhythm that drums like a heartbeat.

But in 1946 Wittgenstein fell in love with Ben Richards, an undergraduate student of medicine at Cambridge who was nearly forty years younger than him; this relationship brought him great joy and continued until his death.

The music of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann were amongst his favourites.

Lebendige Bewegungen gehen nicht von Komitees aus und große Ideen werden nicht durch einen Briefwechsel ausgearbeitet, selbst wenn das Porto noch so günstig ist.

Los movimientos vivos no nacen de comisiones, ni las grandes ideas operan por correo

never underestimate the cool of your elders. They might be a kickass pair of lesbian superwomen who lived exactly the fuck the way they wanted to, even in what we now consider to be less enlightened times.

It is the very horror of the world that obliges us to learn to hope.

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

Life is serious but art is fun!

It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

This is a writer's lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don't know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews , Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)

Wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book with her. If only she kept reading it and reading it...