“I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.” BelieveLeaderMinutesInspireReaderAlways Believe Author:Tony Robbins
“The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.” ChildrenEndsPassionGriefTearsInspireBrotherReaderOccasionsFrantic Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.” PeopleIfsBookStoriesSpeakShareInspireReaderResearchThemeGood Book Author:Ellen Hopkins
“The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.” WritingBookInspireReaderRewardsCome UpProfessionUp To You Author:Michael Scott
“A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or my stories come to me visually. I use words to translate the novel I see inside my head into words that I hope will create a movie inside your head.” StoriesUseImaginationNovelInspireReaderRelyTranslateMy Imagination Author:Jay Neugeboren
“My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader. And so, as a reader you have a task to do in finding those bottles and opening up the messages and experiencing what's in them inside of yourself.” JobsFocusInspirePoetReaderFindingsMessagesTasksOpeningBottlesOpening Up Author:Edward Hirsch
“Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.” LifeDoeBookDesireCertainNamesUnitedInspireReaderDiscourseFamiliarityBegets Author:Petrarch
“I was really inspired by seeing self published zines and mini-comics: seeing someone else make work that was either really personal, or was just done entirely themselves. It really showed me what was possible for my own art, and I hope that my books will inspire readers in the same way.” WayArtBookSelfDoneMy OwnSeeingInspireReaderInspiredZines Author:Liz Prince
“Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'” BelieveSelfI BelieveInspireReaderI Believe InBeing TrueAdmirationFormulasGood Writers Author:Ashwin Sanghi
“I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.” WantHumansHeartLittlesPastLyingNamesSecretMysteryInspireReaderDiscoveryHatredClaimsAimAddDearEnvyStoresNewspapersSoleRivalsSpectacularHuman KnowledgeArchaeologists Author:Barbara Mertz
“Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.” PeopleThinkingArtMadeRealMightReadingInspireReaderTalesFairyFairy TaleStorytellerFabulous Author:Alice Hoffman
“I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.” FeelsWritingFirstsStoriesForceMoralInspireDutyReaderResponsibleUnconsciousEthicalCompulsionMoral Duty Author:David Guterson