Quotes About Inspiration

While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot.

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you.

I think my experience is going to make a difference, but I also think that my speed and power are going to make a bigger difference.