Quotes About Inspiration

Some words may make you happy, some may make you sad. Maybe some will make you angry. What I hope. . . what I hope is that something will whisper in your ear.

Out of our writer mouths Will come clouds Rising to the sky Dropping rain words below. And when the clouds leave The sun will shine down word After word After word Planting our stories in the earth. —Russell

You will have a story in there. . . or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word.

I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.

Some words may make you happy, some may make you said. Maybe some will make you angry. What I hope. . . what I hope is that something will whisper in your ear.

Writing... is ... brave. You are brave.

Where else," I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world?

Poets and children," said Sylvan. "We are the same really. When you can't find a poet, find a child. Remember that.

This is important to writing. . . that is, it is important to my own writing. This. . . is landscape! Mine. This dirt came from the prairie where I was a child. I played in it, dug in it, planted in it, and walked over it. It is where I began. And all my writing begins with a landscape such as this. A place.

Outlines are silly. Once you write the outline, there's no reason to write the story. You write to participate . . . to find out what is going to happen!

You were given the amazing ability to create universes out of twenty six letters and you're going to the mall? Are you nuts?

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts.

You're going to be something, you and that language you speak on paper.

I'd go to school and walk up to people. "A new leaf," I said.

Right here at our doorstep, we'll have the most beautiful bridge in the world.

You will know what to do yourself. Great girl, a stór.

Yes, after every book is finished I decide it is the last one, and then I get an idea in my head and it germinates and before I know it I've started typing and we are off again.

Trust your imagination. There is always something in the box.

To respond to a question or start improvised scenes, begin immediately using the first words that come to you. Trust your mind. Your first thought is a reasonable starting place; it is good enough. Don't hesitate. Once you begin speaking, you have something to work with and build on. With the first-thought method it is as if the idea selects you rather than the other way around. The improviser focuses on making that idea into a good one, rather than searching for a "good idea.

A good improviser is someone who is awake, not entirely self-focused, and moved by a desire to do something useful and give something back and who acts upon this impulse.

The world of improv is a portal into mindfulness and magic.

Keep the gift moving forward.