Emily Dickinson Quotes

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another.

Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.

I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

I'm usually the one who creates most of my work. I have a lot of different ideas that I want to do, so I'm always like, 'Get on it, girl.'

I'm constantly writing music and keeping myself busy somehow.

It's not about motivation. It's about what's driven inside of you.

I think motivation is a thing that is inside of you.