Adam Zagajewski Quotes
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
Adam Zagajewski
Quotes to Explore
I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.
Wendy Higgins
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah More
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
Lactantius
There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
Kara DioGuardi
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
Madeleine L'Engle
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
Judith Butler
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.
Renzo Piano
When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?
Esperanza Spalding
I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
Edmund Hillary
Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
Garth Nix
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
Adam Zagajewski
