“The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.” WritingArtBookInspirationSchoolChoicesStuffViewsPoint Of ViewDialogueCraftsPlotWorkshopsCharacterizationPacingWord Choice Author:Garth Stein
“In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.” InspirationStuffTypeEatingStudiosLionsNational GeographicGazelles Author:Big Sean
“My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one is that I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights of people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayHumansMeanInspirationLife IsStuffAnimalNumbersRaceRightsMankindHuman RaceAnimal RightsSustenanceTsunamiParishBbq Author:Ted Nugent
“I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.” InspirationStuffComedyRapStand Up Comedy Author:Riz Ahmed
“At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.” FirstsHeartLongSelfSometimesMatterHardInspirationDiesNamesStuffEducationTeachFireTeacherTeachingLessonsEncouragementRememberedMemorableLong AgoGiftedNever QuitJuniorsGood TeacherKindlesAlgebraKindergartenHardworkingGood EducationJunior HighMusic TeacherKindergarten TeacherKindle Fire Author:Rosalie Maggio
“I'm an improviser at heart, when I'm writing, I'm improvising in my head. When you're an improviser on stage, you can never be precious about anything, you can't control what anyone else is going to do. The best stuff comes out of moments of inspiration that spontaneously happen.” WritingHeartMomentsInspirationHappensStuffStageDo The BestImprovising Author:Scot Armstrong
“Other [artists'] music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.” SoulInspirationArtistStuffMusic IsMusic SoulNew StuffOld Music Author:Ben Rector
“Well, growing up in LA, things are kind of thrust in front of you. You're almost forced to grow up pretty fast, with experiences and stuff. Going to that school there were a lot of rich girls, a lot of partying, a lot of wild things. You're put in this environment where you're forced to wear a uniform. It was all girls, so you rebel naturally, I think. I don't know, I just kind of got inspiration from every day living and going to school.” ThinkingKnowsWellsKindInspirationSchoolGirlGrowsStuffPartyGrowing UpRichEnvironmentGrowingFrontsRebelUniformsThrustWild ThingsRich Girl Author:Sarah Hudson
“I think a lot of the inspirations for me are very instinctual and subconscious. I don't over intellectualize stuff much. It's a very instinctual thing.” ThinkingInspirationStuffSubconscious Author:Neill Blomkamp
“I will watch a ton of movies while I'm writing for inspiration. "Postcards from the Edge" was one. I love the mother-daughter relationship and all the hard humiliating stuff she has to go through. Or thinks she has to go through.” ThinkingWritingHardInspirationMotherStuffWatchesDaughterEdgesHumiliatingMother DaughterPostcardsMother Daughter Relationship Author:Zoe Cassavetes
“I remember when I first got the call from Beyoncé to work on the project, and the mood that she was in and she was feeling, she wanted New Orleans-inspired music to be incorporated to the stuff she was doing. Creole-type stuff. Zydeco... She wanted that type of inspiration.” FirstsFeelingsInspirationWantedRememberStuffTypeProjectsInspiredMoodRemember WhenNew OrleansCreole Author:Rodney Jerkins
“You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.” IfsFeelsTryingInspirationStuffExcitingAlways TryingNew Stuff Author:Hamilton Leithauser
“I read a lot of different stuff, but I keep being open to inspiration.” DifferentInspirationStuff Author:Pete Carroll
“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.” IfsInspirationAmericaStuffMinutesTelevisionIntellectualHumorousNewspapersEducateMonday Author:Groucho Marx
“There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.” InspirationStuffWonderfulIndividualityMediocrityIgnoredDiscouragedNonconformityNon ConformityBeing Ignored Author:Sean Penn