“I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.” InspirationReadingFictionInspiredNonfictionWellspringFiction And Nonfiction Author:James Rollins
“Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams” PeopleKnowsStoriesShowsDreamInspirationFilmFictionTvsSourceNewsReportsTv ShowsNon Fiction Author:Trudi Canavan
“A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.” ArtHardStoriesInspirationFictionHard WorkNobleProportionWorks Of ArtShort StorySevereBrevity Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!” RealCharacterStoriesInspirationLife IsGivenFictionGood ThingsReal LifeTurmoil Author:Nicholas Sparks
“[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.” InspirationFiction Author:Mary Lee Settle
“Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and Zooey, the sister gets in trouble and the brother comes to help her out. But I wanted to make sure that in my novel the sister had more to do than lie around on a sofa muttering, which is what Franny does for two-thirds of Salinger's novel.” DoeTwoHelpingInspirationWantedLyingFictionNovelWrittenTroubleBrotherThirdsContemporaryBrothers And SistersContemporary FictionSofasMutteringSalinger Author:K. M. Soehnlein