Quotes about Inspiration

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

The sky was pure opal now.

Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing — there's nothing to be done for such people.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

Teaching writing is a hustle.

Writing is very subconscious and the last thing I want to do is think about it.