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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

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy. — A.D. Posey

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn't work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.

Sit down, and write. — M. Kirin

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom. — Ray Bradbury

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

Chase your dreams until you catch them ... and then dream, catch, and dream again! — Dee Marie

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

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin. — Amy Tan

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away. — Adam Pascal

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

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories — Michael Biondi

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

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much. — Don Roff

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

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience. — F.K. Preston

Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember. — Joseph Eastwood

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

It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't. — Bob Dylan

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

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It's a way to find healing, and to healing others. — M. Kirin

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

If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write. — Joyce Rachelle

Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need. — Dan Alatorre

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

Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers. — Don Roff

Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings. — A.D. Posey

Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your life forever ... — Lisa Jones

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've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck. — Don Roff

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers. — M. Kirin

Today I fed him right off the bat, and only checked Facebook twice. — Chila Woychik

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

Just start the sentence ... and see what happens. This is how we write. — Jincy Willett

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them. — M. Kirin

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. — Democritus

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum. — Don Roff

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination. — Luke Taylor

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story. — A.D. Posey

There are some things I would like to say through my writing. It is there in those things where my writing is born, and then breathes on it's own. — Roger Raffee

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. — Louise Brooks

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.' — Brett Favre

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

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

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

Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever. — Don Roff

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 women
those you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one's mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible. — Fennel Hudson

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write. — Gary Panter

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

I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with. — Chuck Ragan

A pen is never worthless. In the right hand, it holds a whole world and all the treasures you could ever want. Now write your story. All of it. — Ian Baucom

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. — Mary Pipher

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

I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings. — Arti Honrao

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'll have a book. — Betsy Byars

How....will I ever truly depict you?
You're perfect, my writing isn't. — Sanober Khan

Look for the little loves. Find and shape the little bitternesses. — Ray Bradbury

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

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration. — Johnny Rich