Quotes about Inspiration

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Did you want to be a missionary in your youth? I did. I think most kids do some time or another, which is odd, seein how unsatisfactory most of us turn out.

Then, with many false starts and blank feet, returning and filling and erasing painfully as she went, she began to write again, knowing with a deep inner certainty that somehow, after long and bitter wandering, she was once more in her own place. Here, then, at home …

The agents of the miraculous which the novelist has at his command are, roughly speaking, conversion and coincidence;

Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly. "Mr. Kirk, you're a man after my own heart.

I'm all for scattering sunshine as we pass. As Stevenson says, we shall pass this way but once--and I devoutly hope he's right.

Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement? Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day — for a bit, anyhow.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.