Success is one part inspiration, nine parts desperation.
Success, DespairMagic: The Gathering, Crude RampartComing up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
Writing, IdeasRod SerlingWho knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
Amy TanIdeas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.
WritingJudy BlumeSurround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.
Jameela JamilOriginality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. PeterFor me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.
SuccessKanye WestA living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
Writing, PoemsNicholas Sparks in Wie ein einziger TagI learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
WritingErnest Hemingway