Quotes About Inspiration

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

When you rule in a culture of fear, you're not getting the best out of people.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

I just write when fear overtakes me.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

Fear is a great motivator.

f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed

I tend to scare myself.

Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.

The enemy of fear is creativity.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.