Quotes About Inspiration

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

Make today your master piece.

In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

Today is a brand new beginning for me!

I would be the best of us, the highest of the lows.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

If you have a dream, FOLLOW IT.

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

I've gotta get out of the basement. I've gotta see the world. I've gotta make a difference

Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.