Quotes about Inspiration

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

I married the heroine of my stories.

And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.

I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald