Quotes about Inspiration

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

You can really lead without a title.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

As I turned the pages, I felt as if there were bees on my fingertips, for I had never felt so alive as when reading.

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

The air was soft, as it often was in this lovely month, and Eddie inhaled its sweetness. He found himself uplifted as he worked, caught up in something outside himself and his petty wants and needs. The clouds drifted like ice in a tumbler. Through his lens the river seemed made of light, there was the shimmer, and for a moment the world seemed whole to him.

I had heard it said that Malachi wrote so beautifully the angels came to watch, for words were the first thing God created out of the silence and were still the most beautiful of His creations.

He was a follower of a teacher from Galilee who taught that peace was the only hope for mankind. Without it, we were like the jackals in the desert, nothing more. Beside me