All Quotes By Tag: Inspiration

“Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build.”

“Clinging onto your past won’t make you move into your future fast.”

“The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing.It doesn’t help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.”

“The Legend of the Firefish,first in the Trophy Chase Trilogy by George Bryan Polivka, is a winner….filled with action,adventure, danger, intrigue,surprise,suspense….The characters Polivka created are fresh and interesting….A must read for fantasy lovers, and a highly recommended drating for others who want a good story. Rebecca LuElla Miller A Christian Worldview of Fiction Website”

“Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.”

“If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.”

“If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.”

“One night I was layin’ down,I heard Papa talkin’ to Mama,I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.’Cause it’s in him and it’s got to come out.”

“His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the ground of all perception before it was divded up in daily living: the Primary Imagination giving way to the Secondary. Poetry was forever seeking a conscious return to this state, which existed all the time, whether he knew it or not.”

“We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.”

“When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is “really” there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.”from Coleridge: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread”

“Without devotion any life becomes a stranger’s story…told for the body to forget what it once loved.”

“No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they’ve tried, they’ve only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It’s better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.”

“Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.”

“No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That’s who I was pretending to be a minute ago – Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. – Ben”