Top 42 Quotes About Authors Inspiration
#1. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
Teresa Mummert
#2. We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write.
Cristen Rodgers
#3. He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!
Darnaya Darice
#4. In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older, he lost his taste for them, but the excellent authors just didn't fill him with the same enthusiasm
Gustave Flaubert
#7. THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired by a few female authors (among them, Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende) I've admired over the years
women who preceded me and who gave me the courage to even begin.
Yolanda A. Reid
#8. Inspiration: The process by which God worked through the human authors of the Bible to communicate His revelation. The term derives from the Greek theopneustos, meaning "God-breathed" (2 Tim. 3:16), and refers to God as the ultimate source of the Scriptures.
Anonymous
#9. Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean.
A.D. Posey
#10. some poems froth
and foam and rise...
out of my morning cup of
mist-sweetened coffee.
Sanober Khan
#11. Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.
David Rose
#12. Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.
Fannie Hurst
#15. True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#16. Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.
A.L. Mabry
#19. The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them.
Bruno Schulz
#20. everything that is scattered
comes together in words
everything that is lost
comes back in poetry.
Sanober Khan
#21. Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#22. Writing is an art, and true art comes from inspiration, which makes me wonder what kind of fucked-up lives some of my favorite authors have led. Surely
Stevie J. Cole
#24. Love is alive when there's music in your heart.
A.D. Posey
#25. [The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.
Mary Lee Settle
#26. how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written.
Sanober Khan
#27. You heard me cry long before I knew my voice.
A.D. Posey
#28. A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
Brandi L. Bates
#29. How....will I ever truly depict you?
You're perfect, my writing isn't.
Sanober Khan
#30. I'm often asked which author I am most inspired by, but I'm inspired by all authors. It takes a great deal of courage to pour your onto paper and watch silently as the world judges it loudly.
Charity Parkerson
#31. The process of creation can be unpredictable and, in some way, similar to love: the brightest waves of inspiration may sometimes occur in wrong timing, wrong places, or even with wrong people.
Sahara Sanders
#32. Value yourself and those who are in your company will reflect the same image.
Steven Cuoco
#34. The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals.
Orison Swett Marden
#36. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!
(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)
Brian Rock
#37. Any woman with kinky textured hair - can wear it, love it and manage it. She only needs the right tools, inspiration and motivation.
Monica Millner
#38. What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.
R.M. Engelhardt
#39. Peace is when we look upon the world together.
A.D. Posey
#40. Is every writer's keyboard a spill magnet?
A.D. Posey
#41. We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.
Pamela Glass Kelly
#42. Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something
a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question - -ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness.
Nadine C. Keels
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