Quotes about Inspiration

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

A visionary pastor is a successful pastor.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence.

Maxims are texts to which we turn in danger or sorrow, and we often find what seems to have been expressly written for our use.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude...

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.