Literary Inspiration Quotes

#1. If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Danny Glover

#2. If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write.

Joyce Rachelle

#3. What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer ... from a thousand questions?

G.F. Smith

#4. There exists an oasis where inspiration bursts forth like black gold from the fertile loam and every odd bellbird chirps a melody worth remembering. There's no bloody map or nautical chart that can deliver you there, but you know the instant you've arrived because you never ever want to depart.

Adam G. Tarsitano

#5. I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

Sean Connery

#6. I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#7. The ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis.

J.G. Ballard

#8. Inspirasi tak mengenal kata mati
There is no death for inspiration.

Skylashtar Maryam

#9. Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Aberjhani

#11. Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#12. Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Jon Meacham

#13. Inhale when I inhale. Exhale when I exhale. Breathe with me,for two beating hearts breathing one breath together become one.

Christina Westover

#14. The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

Susan Sontag

#15. Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Ambrose Bierce

#16. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

Anonymous

#17. When you are going through hell, don't stop.

Winston Churchill

#18. Though it's true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn't rail against it with (Jonathan) Swift's anger. Instead, he hoped the example of his dictionary would temper that change by providing a distinguished literary example

Robert Lane Greene

#19. If the one I waited for came now,
What should I do?
This morning's garden filled with snow
Is far too lovely
For footsteps to mar.

Izumi Shikibu

#20. Eventually, people are going to find out I can play.

Chris Bosh

#21. To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

William Barrett

#22. Circumstances can never be good or bad. Only the individual man can be good or bad.

Swami Vivekananda

#23. She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

Sena Jeter Naslund

#24. Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors ...

Joseph Conrad

#25. It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

Lauren Oliver

#26. For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.

William Benton Clulow

#27. I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#28. Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.

Willa Cather