Quotes About Inspiration

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

Alice's voice rang out confidently from the back of the room. "Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright..." Her rendition was flawless: clear, true notes strung together in a necklace of sound, a gift for everyone in the room to wear.

Work, but work with a flare, a love of the art so to speak, of doing what I love.

Read good, big important things.

Oddly enough, the more tired you get as you write and rewrite, the more likely you are to abandon any self-conscious semi-stentorian writing and write more like yourself. Fatigue lets you emerge. This is good.)

I now know that God has a plan for each of us. The thing is to find out what it is." How? Through prayer, through keeping your mind open, and trough the circumstances of daily life and the people you meet.

Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: "Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.

He [Pope Benedict XVI] spoke of the distilled message of John Paul's reign: "Be not afraid

People are attracted to those who fully live life without excuses.

How can we make this happen?

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

En los sueños no se necesitan paracaídas ni alas: en los sueños puedes volar.

What I've learned of love, I've learned from you. I don't believe in anything, but I believe in you.

I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are."19

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Harold Whitman

Go and live the lives you've imagined.

What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share.

Good writing makes writers want to write.

Dear Reader, I hope you're enjoying our time in Wolf Creek. I certainly am. I appreciate so much all your wonderful comments on the books so far. Lord willing, I'll keep trying to write about imperfect people who may have lost their way but find it again, stories that uplift and resonate with you in some way.

thing we can do for the young is set an example,' said Oliver slowly. 'I discovered that long ago. They don't listen to us, they find most of what we have to say at best tedious and at worst inane. We can influence them simply by what we do and how we do it. Now think about

that if I let myself go, did not always slow me down by thinking so much beforehand I could achieve many things I would never have dreamt possible!!

Light in every lamp, light in every mind.