Quotes About Inspiration

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

Sigue llenando éste minuto de razones para respirar.

La mera posibilidad [...] alcanza para dar otro tono a la vida corriente

Quién habrá inventado la música? ¿El viento? ¿El mar? ¿La lluvia? ¿Cuándo habrá nacido la armonía? ¿Qué habrá sonado primero? ¿El lenguaje de la brisa o el canto del ruiseñor? Desde

La música es un premio, un recurso, una victoria.

Please make this nation remember how futures are built

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be." Mario Vargas Llosa

That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

It's surreal to know my dreams are coming true.

It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are.

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Some people anesthetized with booze; Woody wrote.

Love is the real power. It's the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with--everyone blooms.

When Matisse was asked whether he believed in God, his response was, 'yes, when I'm working'.

When he looked up, he said, "Clare told me about Christmas." And I swear the boy's face began to shine. I recognized what I saw there: that a person's name could be infinitely precious, that just saying it could make you feel singled out for glory.