Inspiration And Writing Quotes
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I get my best writing done when I'm supposed to be doing something else entirely. And that's why I keep my day job.
— Joyce Rachelle
Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.
— Gabrielle Tozer
Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
— Teresa Mummert
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.
— Washington Irving
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
— Sara Sheridan
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination.
— Christina Westover
I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Sacred actions: gratitude, praying, dancing, hugging, singing, writing, painting, drawing, gardening, jogging, reading, knitting and many more!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood.
— Selena Haskins
The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.
— Eliza Green
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
— Steven Pressfield
The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
— Steven Pressfield
I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.
— Brett Dennen
Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.
— Amy Tan
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
— Raymond Carver
I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.
— John Mellencamp
I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.
— Gina McKnight
I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.
— Abhijit Naskar
Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.
— M. Kirin
Without visions and written goals, what direction are we going to head?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.
— Rana Dasgupta
Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.
— Diana Jane Heath
The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Why do we write?"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible — Roger Rosenblatt
When you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.
— Guy Kawasaki
I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.
— J. Golden Kimball
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.
— Arthur Holitscher
I am writing just to inspire you, encourage you, empower you, and give you hope when you are fighting your life's battle.
— Debasish Mridha
And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!
— A.A. Patawaran
All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.
— Stephanie Lennox
Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.
— Phil Cousineau
As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.
— Ana Claudia Antunes
Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.
— Niall Williams
An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.
— Edith Hamilton
Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.
— A.D. Posey
Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.
— Pippa DaCosta
I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
— Toni Morrison
writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself.
— William Zinsser
I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.
— A.D. Posey
Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
— Louise Brooks
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration.
— Mary Robinette Kowal
There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.
— Carla H. Krueger
Poets should never stop writing, because their words could be a powerful inspiration to someone else, whether it be now or 100 years from today.
— Delano Johnson
Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush.
— Lizzy Grimm
There's two kinds of womenthose you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel
The structure of a 'writing schedule' is only there as a frame. You provide the image, the emotion, and the sentiment in your own time.
— Margaret Aranda
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.
— Richard Brookhiser
Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...
— Avijeet Das
Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom
— Walt Disney Company
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
— Neil Gaiman
Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A Writer Must Have Text Appeal
— Khaled Talib
Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart
— Lisa Fantino
