“Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.”— Anne Carson, goodreads.com
“I don't need to make more stuff. I've made a lot of stuff! I'm financially okay. I'm not gonna make stuff just for the sake of making stuff. I want to make stuff ’cause I'm inspired. Right now I don't really feel inspired.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.com
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a tab…”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”— Eleanor Roosevelt,, goodreads.com
“I admire people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.”— Victor Hugo, amazon.com
“You know, as we come to the end of this phase of our life, we find ourselves trying to remember the good times and trying to forget the bad times, and we find ourselves thinking about the future. We start to worry , thinking, "What am I gonna do? Where am I gonna be in ten years?" But I say to you,…”— Robin Williams, youtube.com
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”— Bruce Lee, play.google.com
“To make any kind of progress, we need to imagine a different reality and believe it's possible.”— Tali Sharot, twitter.com
“You can draw inspiration from everywhere, and it's just so beautiful to be able to view life in that way.”— Kara Marni, interviewmagazine.com
“When coincidences start happening you know the muses are at your side.”— Donna Tartt, telegraph.co.uk
“Real men want a woman who inspires them because she has great things going on her own life. They want a woman who has her own purpose other than being in a relationship.”— Christian Carter, eharmony.com
“A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.”— Steve Lopez, amazon.com