Quotes About Inspiration

Las historias son importantes [...]. Pueden ser más importantes que cualquier otra cosa. Si portan la verdad.

Las historias son lo mas salvaje de todo

still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines on a page.

In her dreams, she flies.

And now it's time to hand the baton to you. Stories don't end with writer, however many started the race. So go. Run with it. Make trouble.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

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BRIT MANDELO The Finite Canvas

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

This country was theirs for the taking, and in the span of a single lifetime true greatness could be achieved. They spent their days at Erasmus surrounded by traces of great men who had come before, images and names, legacies etched in stone.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me.

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?

Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.