Inspirational quotes Quote by Anonymous

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

— William S. Burroughs

I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

— Jim Butcher

I've learnt that the muse is like an angry girlfriend. If she comes knocking you better be home because if you're not, she doesn't…

— Anh Do

Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.

— Robert Genn

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction…

— Henry David Thoreau

I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your…

— Nora Roberts

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

— Ray Bradbury

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

— Tanya Saracho

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

— Mason Cooley

It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But…

— Steven Pressfield

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

— Carine Roitfeld