Quotes about Inspiration
Ultimately it was rap that got my head in the right place, two songs especially: Jay-Z's "My 1st Song" and Eminem's "Lose Yourself.
— Barack Obama
But the idea of America, the promise of America: this I clung to with a stubbornness that surprised even me. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"—that was my America.
— Barack Obama
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday...
— Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
— Barbara Kingsolver
But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention
— Barbara Kingsolver