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“The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness; and where will you find this but in woman?” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
“All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
“We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift: We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“Women . . . inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

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