Quotes About Inspiration

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

And I think right now I'm just enjoying finding something such as One Weekend a Month where I can really resonate with this woman's history and her situation.

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no one would dare create. They're too mad.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

It was my dream as a kid was to make history.

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.