Terrell Suggs Quotes

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

Inspiration comes from all different places.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

You can't rush inspiration.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I get so much inspiration from other authors.

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.

Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.

Inspiration can come from anywhere - an image, a comment, something that's happened to me or someone I know. It's hard to know exactly.

People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.