“I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.”

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English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer 1932

Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer

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“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you don't wait, you may have to deal with pesky criminal charges like kidnapping and rape.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.”

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist

Source: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.”

Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist

“We say booty. I'm not quite sure about 'posterior'. I'll try to keep that in the back of my mind. 'What are you doing?' 'I'm shaking my posterior.”

Serena Williams (1981) American tennis player

Serena Williams. She was asked what she thought about a TV commentator admiring slow-motion pictures of sister Venus' "posterior" http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7190961.stm

“I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, "Damn, they stole my thing." I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.”

Zooey Deschanel (1980) American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter

As quoted in " From A to Zooey http://www.fedge.net/~zdeschanel/articles/bostonglobe-2-23-03.html" in The Boston Globe (23 February 2003).

“It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“I don't think there's anything guaranteed 100% in life. I want to have discussions for sure and there's lots of talking to be done. I'm not saying I don't want to be Derby manager, I'm saying that I don't think in life anything is 100% guaranteed. Now we'll sit down, have a chat and see what happens. I'm not prepared to discuss it at the moment and I'm not prepared to go into specifics. I've never said I'm leaving but it was always my intention to get to the end of the season and have a discussion.”

Billy Davies (1964) Scottish association football player and manager

May 2007, http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/north-east-football/2007/05/29/derby-county-1-west-brom-0-79310-19213006/
Billy made these remarks shortly after gaining promotion to the Premiership with Derby County

“I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.”

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