Lack of Inspiration Quotes

How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.

People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

Writing bores me so.

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.

I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.

I'm not a guy who gets inspirations.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

Doing a remake is an open admission that, 'boss, I don't have anything of my own.'

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, 'Leave It to Beaver' didn't speak to me. That's why I latched on to music.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.