Quotes about Inspiration
If you can dream it, you can do it.
— Helen Keller
Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
— Helen Keller
Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
— Helen Keller
Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.
— Helen Keller
Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.
— Helen Keller
First — How did I become a Socialist? By reading.
— Helen Keller
Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.
— Dolly Parton
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
— Dolly Parton
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
— Paulo Coelho
Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
— Lauren Kate
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
— Aldous Huxley
I think there's something therapeutic in singing about anything, whether it's what you've written or whether it's someone else's song. I find both satisfying in different ways.
— Mark Lanegan