Muse Quote by Isabel Allende

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

— Isabel Allende

The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and…

— Isabel Allende

“I can assure you, as anyone who has ever met a muse knows, the best way to get a muse to hang around is…

— Z.A. Maxfield

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there…

— Tom Robbins

It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to…

— Nick Cave

But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.

— Anonymous

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

— Dan Mangan

I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

— Miuccia Prada