Quotes About Inspiration

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

The horrific emotional consequences of the worst mistake of his life aside, Kai had an idea.

remembered the main reason I was doing this was to

Solving your problems is an interesting exercise in lateral thinking. "So you're bored?

In the extremity of darkness I will look up and see the stars.

I am not untidy," I objected. "I merely surround myself with a plethora of possibilities.

I often succumb to poetic notions, despite the gripping science.

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

Well, my father [Kingsley Amis] was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet.

I have always derived great comfort from William Shakespeare. After a depressing visit to the mirror or an unkind word from a girlfriend or an incredulous stare in the street, I say to myself: 'Well. Shakespeare looked like shit.' It works wonders.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

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From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother.

Creation happens to us, burns itself into us, recasts us in burning -- we tremble and are faint, we submit. We take part in creation, meet the Creator, reach out to Him, helpers and companions.

Of Enoch, who walked with Elohim, it is told that he had become one of the angels who was all eyes and wings. Thus is the poet. Everything in him perceives the things, and everything in him flies past the things. He is wholly in the one thing that he experiences, and yet is already and still in all the others at the same time.

The legendary anecdote goes one stop beyond: the single incident in question conveys the meaning of life.

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.

deeds," Stanley remembered later.

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