Quotes about Inspiration

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.

VI We travelers, walking to the sun, can't see Ahead, but looking back the very light That blinded us shows us the way we came, Along which blessings now appear, risen As if from sightlessness to sight, and we, By blessing brightly lit, keep going toward That blessed light that yet to us is dark.

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.

The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.

The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented. . . . Faulkner in the University, 117

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.