{"topic":"inspiration","quotes":[{"quote":"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.","author":"Aaron Copland"},{"quote":"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.","author":"Frank Tibolt"},{"quote":"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.","author":"Jack London"},{"quote":"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.","author":"Leonard Bernstein"},{"quote":"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.","author":"Socrates"},{"quote":"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.","author":"Thomas A. Edison"},{"quote":"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.","author":"Thomas A. Edison"}]}