Creative Writing Inspirational Quotes

#1. It's amazing what you can do when you get creative.

A.D. Posey

#2. When would he ever learn to stop saying "Look" to a man who had no eyes?

Lois Lowry

#3. I write to understand what I know.

Kamand Kojouri

#4. I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Cormac McCarthy

#5. I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself.

Christoph Waltz

#6. Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We.

Junot Diaz

#7. There is a wonderful place
where flowers grow in colors
beyond the words of poets ...
trees sing with the
songs of butterflies.
And mythical tigresses look
at you with fiery golden eyes ...
open your heart
and feel the colors of magic
blooming inside you.

Laurel Burch

#8. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
[1967 interview]

Ray Bradbury

#9. When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

Stephen King

#10. Dreams are fuel for creation.

Joseph Hunt

#11. No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

John Churton Collins

#12. With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen
if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

Stephen King

#13. The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles.

Martin Winterkorn

#14. Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Ben Jipcho

#15. You gave me a soul touch. A touch beyond physical. The most powerful of touch. I thought it was about you but I was wrong it was about me. In me. It took me a lifetime to realize it was me, not you. Thank you for showing me my soul.

Renae A. Sauter

#16. Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

Neale Donald Walsch