Quotes About Inspiration

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

Libraries are our friends.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

I make movies I want to see.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.

Whatever is left behind in the passing of a rare talent, so much is always lost.

The keystone of any artistic construction is contained in that simple question, what is the intention?

she's sure she's going to be the next J. K. Rowling.

Neil S. Plakcy

Neil S. Plakcy

Near as I can tell, God intended me to be a witness. Like those little children who survived the concentration camps. He wanted me to tell my story, reach out a hand to anyone I could. And I've done that, thirty years or so.

Neil S. Plakcy

minister's gallery

From my first day inside, I recognized that this odd coupling-housing leprosy patients with federal convicts- would make a great story

Ella guided me: sometimes directly, sometimes with story and metaphor, but mostly how she lived.

chosen for an extraordinary path. I started to believe her. Not just that I could make a difference, but that I was special and had been called to share my

Sketchbooks and journals are the street lamps that illuminate the artist's journey.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.