When Inspiration Strikes Quotes

#1. 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

#2. No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are.

Rumi

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

Stephen King

#4. Four legs good, two legs bad.' This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism.

George Orwell

#5. To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.

David First

#6. I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

Christie Brinkley

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

Nicole Leigh West

#8. 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

#9. I guarantee that tomorrow there will be something that will happen, that has never happened before.
That is something to look forward too.
And the best part of tomorrow is that there is another one just a day later.

JohnA Passaro

#10. I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so.

Andrea Mackris

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

Gretchen Rubin

#12. 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

#13. I know I shouldn't look, but I can't help it, I have to see if it's like before. Even with his mask on, I saw the soul beneath the stone.

Alexandra Bracken

#14. Once you have extrapolated the effects a particular science will have on society - cheap clean energy, rejuvenation - the political impact is quite easy to predict. The two are twinned.

Peter F. Hamilton

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

William Faulkner

#18. Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque.

Christina Aguilera

#19. A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

Allison Pearson

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

Nina LaCour

#21. Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

Gillian Jacobs

#22. It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

D. A. Carson

#23. Words have power, and sometimes, they stay with
you for life. It's up to you to allow those words to define who you become.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#24. 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