Verb
The word is derived from fuel
Thank God – because what are you going to write about if you don't struggle as a child? I don't think that you become creative because you have struggled, no, but creative people are fuelled by anger and passion, and haunted by demons and memories. Isabel Allende
From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way. Hayley Atwell
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster. Richard Eyre
Notwithstanding the quasi-religious enthusiasms of ultra-Darwinists, their own understanding of theology is a combination of ignorance and derision, philosophically limp, drawing on clichés, and happily fuelled by the idiocies of the so-called scientific creationists. Simon Conway Morris
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written. Don McLean
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West. Salman Rushdie