Kazuo Ishiguro

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

Japanese Author

Geddy Lee

It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.

Canadian Musician

Matthew Desmond

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

American Sociologist

Jeff Lindsay

Marvel Comics has always been a place where I felt at home. It has been a very important part of my life and has always been a wellspring of creative and relevant ideas.

American Playwright

Jean Houston

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

American Author

Josh Fox

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

American Director

Estelle Parsons

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

American Actress

Sallie Patrick

Whether it's angst or jealousy, catfights always have to come from the wellspring of the emotion of the character.

American Producer

Janine Benyus

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

American Writer

Martin Freeman

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

English Actor

Often used metaphorically to express an inexhaustible supply of something intangible.

Metaphorical Use

Carries a positive meaning, implying something good or desirable.

Positive Connotation

Use it for abstract concepts, not just physical items or resources.

Abstract Concepts

Use it to describe an actual physical source of water in nature.

Literal Source

Suggests an uncommon or special feature in a particular landscape.

Unique Feature

Can signify the beginning or source of a river or stream.

Starting Point

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 us that these daydreams are self generated is fascinating they emerge on their own not from what we perceive so they're unique to each of us we each have this wellspring of visions inside

Wellspring

Metaphorical Use

Positive Connotation

Abstract Concepts

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