Change Quote by William S. Burroughs

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake…

— Anonymous

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

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

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

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

— Kristin Hersh

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

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

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

— Dorothy Parker

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

— Richelle Mead

My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top…

— Craig Stone