Quotes about Inspiration

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

Make God's Word your Sourcebook.

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

This generation can only reach this generation.

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!