“You can draw inspiration from everywhere, and it's just so beautiful to be able to view life in that way.”— Kara Marni, interviewmagazine.com
“When coincidences start happening you know the muses are at your side.”— Donna Tartt, telegraph.co.uk
“I often went in search of her, and I saw that in all her ways she was so praiseworthy and noble that indeed the words of the poet Homer might have been said of her, she did not seem the daughter of a mortal man, but of a god.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.com
“For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue—that I had to do the job myself.”— Anaïs Nin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes, when I’m in the midst of writing, I feel like I am suddenly walking on one of those moving sidewalks that you find in a big airport terminal. I can feel myself being gently propelled by some exterior force. Something is carrying me along — something powerful and generous— and that somethi…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com