Quotes About Inspiration

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

I dream for a living.

I write for Reader's Digest. It's not hard. All you do is copy out an article and mail it in again.

Let's have some new cliches.

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

God put haters on this earth for two reasons: 1. To motivate others. 2. To give no lives a job.

Dont let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. -1 Timothy 4:12

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.