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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 of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else. — Charles Bukowski

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

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. — Jonathan Franzen

You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write. — M. Kirin

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

You're writing someone's 'future' favorite book. — M. Kirin

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

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

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

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy — Groucho Marx

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

Be a burst of joy. — A.D. Posey

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell. — M. Kirin

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company. — Eliza Green

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Imagination is what you do with your inspiration. — Violet Haberdasher

Love is the beauty of being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Inspiration is all around us. Don't let the brain limit the mind . — Lisi Harrison

Stop writing caption. Go action! — Lenang Manggala

...(W)here there's drama, there's crap. — Jincy Willett

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

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

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

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 characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it — Marti Melville

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing. — Don Roff

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

how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written. — Sanober Khan

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

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

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

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

The writings are built by imagination. Emotions fill the colours to them. — Sameer Khan

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

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

May God redeem mankind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

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

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete. — Marston James

Your mind is a book; God is the pen. — Michael Bassey Johnson

It ain't so easy writing about nothin — Patti Smith

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. — Bill Viola

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