Quotes About Inspiration

an unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

Nothing's boring if it's in your soul…

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial collection of delightful adventure stories.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

I keep repeating that wherever there is life, there is hope. One day my fate will change.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

The real rivals among your peers will be room-changers. Certain people, when they walk into a room, alter the atmosphere. Everybody else adjusts their posture, their willingness to listen, their ideas. This is not a full definition of leadership, only its most obvious symptom.

However, there is a proviso here. Scripture will prove sufficient if we are able to receive from it all that God has put into it.

Let's set the place afire.

Maybe my story needs to be told specifically because it is less heart wrenching. In spite of periods where I have struggled and been in pain, my story provides generous glimpses into what a Christian attitude toward homosexuality might look like.

Les mots n'ont pas toujours besoin d'une destination. On les laisse s'arrêter aux frontières des sensations. Errant sans tête dans l'espace du trouble. Et c'est bien là le privilège des artistes : vivre dans la confusion.

Readers always find themselves in a book, in one way or another. Reading is a completely egotistical pleasure. Unconsciously we expect books to speak to us. An author can write the most farfetched or implausible story ever, but there will still be readers who will still be readers who will say: 'I don't believe it: you wrote the story of my life!

According to him, it was not a question of liking or not liking to read, but of finding the book that was meant for you. Everybody could love reading, as long as they had the right book in their hands, a book that spoke to them, a book they could not bear to part with.

Tal es el privilegio de los artistas, dejar obras que le pongan obstáculos a la muerte.

Words do not always need a destination. We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings. Running around headless in the vague zone. And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.

Puisses-tu ne jamais oublier que je crois en toi.

Seguramente se sentiría muy orgullosa de haber sido la compañera del hombre que había escrito aquella novela; siempre podría decir que ella había sido su inspiración. No hay edad para empezar a ejercer de musa.

Pick acabó estando en boca de todos, convertido en el símbolo de lo que sueñan quienes aspiran a que algún día les reconozcan el talento. ¿Quién podría creer a los que dicen que escriben para sí mismos?

A los escritores los hace tan felices la idea de llevar a cabo alguna tarea doméstica! Les gusta compensar sus vagabundeos nebulosos con un frenético interés por lo concreto.

Las tristezas se olvidan con Botticelli, los miedos se atenúan con Rembrandt y las penas se reducen con Chagall.