Inspiration Strikes Quotes

#1. Sometimes inspiration strikes; other times you have to hunt it down.

Nina LaCour

#2. I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

William Faulkner

#3. If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.

Christopher Paolini

#4. I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn't there.

Margaret Laurence

#5. When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.

Gretchen Rubin

#6. Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

Steven Pressfield

#7. Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

Gillian Jacobs

#8. I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

Stephen King

#9. In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#10. Tinker Bell is a great wing woman. And as somebody pointed out to me, she is also a winged woman.

Rose McIver

#11. When the urge to knock on a door strikes, it's your soul's desire for forward movement. So knock!

Nicole Leigh West

#12. Nah, Dad, I'm good. Please leave me in this hotel bedroom with my handsome boyfriend. And several of his relatives, and a very sharp weapon."
"Clearly I went badly wrong somewhere when raising you," said Dad. "Well, best to do down before Tomo gets into the vodka.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#13. I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

Dev Anand

#14. If you don't believe in miracles and your own inner power, you have forgotten just how truly amazing you are!

Jan Porter

#15. Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

Mother Teresa

#16. My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

Walter Scott

#17. Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.

Shaun Hick

#18. The woman's essence has always been the most powerful force
much like nature has always been Satan's church.
Quote from the Vampire exhibit at Hallands Kulturhistoriska museum 2012

Czon

#19. Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

Lex Luger

#20. Spiritual ardency is the wellspring of a courageous heart. It gives us the strength to continue through all the difficulties of the journey. The question for us is how to practice and cultivate ardency, so that it becomes a powerful and onward-leading force in our lives.

Joseph Goldstein

#21. A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon. I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather. "Really?" I yelled. Horus didn't answer

Rick Riordan

#22. Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

John Gardner