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The bar is high. But now you have a ladder.
— Larry Brooks
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
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen
I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Writing is a form of contemplation.
— Linda A. Tancs
... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
— Patrick Ness
Art is craft, not inspiration.
— Stephen Sondheim
my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words. — Sanober Khan
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'.
— Jeffrey Carver
Her words dance on the page.
— A.D. Posey
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
Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black. — Ana Claudia Antunes
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
— Brendan Francis Brown
Be a burst of joy.
— A.D. Posey
Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.
— Eliza Green
Wisdom is in books, ... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.
— Dan Brown
I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.
— John Mellencamp
The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place.
— Charles De Lint
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
— Jules Renard
Go On. Write. I dare you.
— Madeline Dyer
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
Writing is the painting of the voice.
— Voltaire
Be the author of your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.
— Laurie Seidler
Three words for a writer: Make me care.
— Buffy Andrews
Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive.
— Sara Sheridan
Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.
— Sara Sheridan
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Write until it becomes as natural as breathing. Write until not writing makes you anxious.
— Unknown
I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.
— A.D. Posey
My theory is you shouldn't apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her.
— Laurie Seidler
Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.
— Violet Haberdasher
Love is the beauty of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Stop writing caption. Go action!
— Lenang Manggala
...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.
— Jincy Willett
To wonder is to recreate a sacred self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.
— Lawren Leo
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
A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.
— Stephanie Lennox
Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed.
— F.K. Preston
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
Crying cleanses the soul.
— A.D. Posey
Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.
— Brian A. McBride
The blank page is the canvas on which a writer paints a story.
— Stephanie Ayers
So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.
— Anthony Storr
Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
— Louise Brooks
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ...
— Evelyn Waugh
The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration.
— Mary Robinette Kowal
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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
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Just because something DOES NOT work, that doesn't mean it CANNOT.
— Sarah M. Cradit
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
— Ann Patchett
May God redeem mankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.
— Steve Erickson
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
— Roald Dahl
Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration ...
— Leonard Bishop
Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.
— Pippa DaCosta
Your mind is a book; God is the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It ain't so easy writing about nothin
— Patti Smith
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
— Wislawa Szymborska
If at first you don't succeed--write more!
— N.B. Williams
Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...
— Virginia Alison
Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure
— Christopher Stocking