Ellen Hopkins Quotes

It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

I always say kids are the future and if we can inspire them, the world will be a much better place.

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

To create something you must be something.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Modeling isn't boring.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.