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To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
— Steven Pressfield
If you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else. — Charles Bukowski
Authors can alter your life.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
It wasn't until I started writing that I found a whole new appreciation for reading.
— Justin Bienvenue
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
— Brendan Francis Brown
have written my first grateful thanks for a fresh new day in a new year.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
— Steven Pressfield
A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.
— Robert Anderson
I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.
— John Mellencamp
I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job.
— Gail Carson Levine
Often you cannot wait for inspiration - it needs to be sought out.
— Dean F. Wilson
Where do you get the inspiration for your books?I tell myself I can't have another cup of coffee till I've thought of an idea. — Douglas Adams
Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.
— Diana Jane Heath
Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.
— Guadalupe Neri
File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.
— Antony Johnston
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.
— Lawren Leo
Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I'd never get anything done.
— Lawrence C. Connolly
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.
— Scott Bradfield
When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
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
Honestly...this is why I write.I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.
I write for my sanity. — Debora Dennis
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time ... The wait is simply too long.
— Leonard Bernstein
Why do we write?"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible — Roger Rosenblatt
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song - be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.
— Laurence Sterne
From the great Jack London: "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." What inspires you?
— Gayle Lynds
I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.
— W. Somerset Maugham
My theory is you shouldn't apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her.
— Laurie Seidler
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
— Leonard Bernstein
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
The satisfaction I feel from finishing another story is tantamount to, say, crossing the finish line for the career marathoner.
— Susan Wingate
Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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
Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.
— Claire Wingfield
Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom
— Walt Disney Company
Three words for a writer: Make me care.
— Buffy Andrews
Everybody dies. Some die still waiting for inspiration. — Christina Escamilla
Don't wait for inspiration. She's a fickle tart. Just write.
— Ruth Bavetta
