April Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power…

— Steven Pressfield

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

— Jane Birkin

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should.…

— Ramez Naam

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but…

— Nick Cave

“When you can inspire a muse, you've got it going on.”

— Lisa Kessler

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I think my muse is all around me...at least the opportunities for creation are all around. I especially enjoy being in my home and…

— Jerdine Nolen

The idea for The Muse came from my own life, from a product that I wanted but couldn't find anywhere. Sometimes when you see…

— Kathryn Minshew

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

— Aristide Maillol

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a…

— Frank Norris