Columnists Quote by Cynthia Heimel

I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone…

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

— Richelle Mead

I like to follow my own muse.

— Mark Alan Stamaty

I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going…

— Gillian Flynn

It sounds insane, I know, but I think that - I'm so lucky because I basically am my own muse.

— Rumi Neely

We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys…

— Nikki Giovanni

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

— Dominic Monaghan

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

— Miuccia Prada

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

— Leonora Carrington

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

— Kristin Hannah

I wonder if I'll meet one person that knows enough people that can get me recognized as a writer. Oh I already have he…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

— Jim Butcher