Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.