Parenting Quote by F.L. Lucas

“He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous…

— Plato

“The artist, in making victims of his muses, remasters himself as a hero, saving them from their otherwise inconsequential lives.”

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Literature's father figures can only loom, intimidate, and inspire for so long before they must be slain by their offspring.”

— Larry McCaffery

“Every time I hear writers talk about ‘the muse,’ I just want to bitch-slap them. It’s a job. Do your job.”

— Nora Roberts

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years…

— Homer

“And even though I’m a writer, and I pen my words in black and white on flat sheets of paper stapled together hastily at…

— Jessica Yeh

“There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter…

— Stephen King

“Please don't entertain for a moment the utterly mistaken idea that there is no drudgery in writing. There is a great deal of drudgery…

— Ngaio Marsh

“If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad -…

— A.E. Coppard

“Into the wind we vary, Our hearts free of youth, Mold me into envy, If I can’t have your muse; Under toe, Walk to…

— Adrianna Stepiano

“For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech,…

— Dan Simmons