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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 of
you,
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

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories. — Don Roff

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. — Jack London

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. — Brendan Francis Brown

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration. — Anne Lamott

have written my first grateful thanks for a fresh new day in a new year. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them. — R.K. King

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

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you — Mae West

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

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

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

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk. — Gene Luen Yang

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 creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane. — F.K. Preston

My theory is you shouldn't apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her. — Laurie Seidler

For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin. — Stephen King

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

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

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

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter. — Dan Poynter

Everybody dies.
Some die still waiting for inspiration. — Christina Escamilla

Don't wait for inspiration. She's a fickle tart. Just write. — Ruth Bavetta

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing ... — Josip Novakovich

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps. — Joyce Rachelle

An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it. — Chrys Fey