Quotes About Inspiration

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Secular self-assertion, perhaps inevitably, developed more slowly; it was one thing to act in 'unfeminine' ways if divinely inspired, not quite so easy to act unconventionally out of personal ambition.

ever since she had read the girl's novel, a piece of artistry that struck her as wish-fulfilment at its most blatant...

it would seem that whoever did write this book knows you very well. You appear in it, sir. As...as the hero.

Some people are born with words flowing in their veins.

Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.

I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!

I think of my feather pen as something magical that still belongs to a wing. All I need is paper, ink, and the courage to let wild words soar.

Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan, and tiny rhymes by Emily Dickinson.

Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.

My heart drums with gratitude. My thoughts sing with hope.

Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less alone.

Without even trying to be a teacher, Fredrika is teaching us, Showing us how to see things in new ways Instead of always thinking The same old thoughts That have been passed along by strangers Day after day, year after year Without any spirit of amazement Or wonder,

Los libros están encantados. Los libros me ayudan a viajar. Los libros me ayudan a respirar.

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

Where do dreams come from? ...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.

Variant selves haunt the corridors of my brain, people my novels, crowd in like ghosts drawn to blood when friends or strangers tell me secrets, hand me their troubles, sweaters knit of hair and wire.

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade