Other times, inspiration hits him as he walks into the photo studio.

Suddenly he thought of his boots, and even as the inspiration hit him, he wrenched one of them off.

The telephone number of Hotel Pennsylvania became the inspiration for the Glenn Miller hit.

And then a new inspiration hit me.

A sudden inspiration hit him and he smote McGill on the back.

They can work whenever the inspiration hits them, too.

Hoping, in other words, that inspiration would finally hit if he immersed himself far enough in the facts.

Then full inspiration hit me, and I realized that a sword can cut both ways, no matter how clumsy.

Where did the inspiration for the name hit him?

After a week he had a better feel for Montparnasse's wide boulevards and storied history, but inspiration hadn't hit.