Quotes about Inspiration

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.

Basically when you're a writer and have a mind like mine, my mind has gone platinum multiple times, and I have got a heart of gold; my heart's in the right place.

So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.

I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.