It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is MUCH BETTER for the Word to get into us.
Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence. . . I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.
But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.
Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an expansion of yourself: they take your thoughts, your ideas, your emotions, and they multiply it.
Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.
Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation, and flashes of inspiration prove to be excellent sources of novel approaches, new ways of looking at things, new discoveries, and new information. We do not disparage those ideas derived from religious experience, altered states of consciousness, or the emotions; we merely declare that testing these ideas against reality is the only way to determine their validity as knowledge.
To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world.
It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed.
When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time
I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.
I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
