Quotes About Writers Inspiration

#1. Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.

Dustin Yellin

#2. Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

Brian A. McBride

#3. The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.

A.D. Posey

#4. We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

Sara Sheridan

#5. Material poverty doesn't cause
murder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does.

Derric Yuh Ndim

#6. And what great writers actually pass on is not so much their words, but they hand on their breath at their moments of inspiration.

Natalie Goldberg

#7. 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

#8. A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.

Dermott Hayes

#9. ...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#10. Lighten up. Brighten up. Smile.

A.D. Posey

#11. Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Washington Irving

#12. Is every writer's keyboard a spill magnet?

A.D. Posey

#13. Peace is when we look upon the world together.

A.D. Posey

#14. Intuition is truth.

A.D. Posey

#15. Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#16. I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.

Madeleine L'Engle

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Life is beauty simply breathing.

A.D. Posey

#20. I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

F. Sionil Jose

#21. It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing them to give their best every moment of creation. Writing becomes their medicine, their way of escape, the catalyst for their imagination.

Cirilo F. Bautista

#22. The shadow of a character is defined by its maker...while a heroine is personified by its actions and relatability. So writers can create a world with a heroine that has impact and finish with everessence lights at the dims of its shadows

Raquelle Stepney

#23. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

Bill Loguidice

#25. 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

#26. As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#27. Our peace is our purpose.

A.D. Posey

#28. our value/belief system acts as a
conditioning factor for our thinking pattern.

Derric Yuh Ndim

#29. Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn't build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#30. Why do we write?
"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible

Roger Rosenblatt

#31. 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

#32. Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.

Henry Rollins

#33. There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.

M. Kirin

#34. Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

Joy Fielding

#35. He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!

Darnaya Darice

#36. All great writers share one thing in common:

They finished their books.

M. Kirin

#37. If I'm not a writer, who am I?

Jacquelyn Middleton

#38. People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven't a clue; I'm just grateful that I get them.

Michelle Paver

#39. ..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#40. Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#41. A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

Robert Anderson

#42. Every book I've read appears in my writing.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#43. My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#44. Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren't necessarily human, are they?

Alyssa Hubbard

#45. I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

Arthur Holitscher

#46. I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up.

B.A. Gabrielle

#47. You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.

Steven Brust

#48. The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#49. As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

#50. And everyone wants to read the poem
we're afraid to write.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#51. Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#52. You heard me cry long before I knew my voice.

A.D. Posey

#53. One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely resembling a talent of Borges' caliber, but he is an inspiration and a proof that one can be a meaningful and successful writer while blind.

Larry Howes

#54. A novelist is similar to a triathlete. Train hard every day. You will be timed and measured. Budget to promote, grow, and be without fear.

Caroline Gerardo

#55. Love awakens the soul.

A.D. Posey

#56. Empower the future with love. Disgraceful men don't stand a place in the kingdom of god.

Suchet Chaturvedi

#57. Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.

Sara Sheridan

#58. I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

Kevin Henkes

#59. Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

Joyce Rachelle

#60. Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on ...

Matthew Pearl

#61. The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one's mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.

Fennel Hudson

#62. Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.

Claire Wingfield

#63. when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comes
the necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older.

Derric Yuh Ndim

#64. ...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#65. Love is alive when there's music in your heart.

A.D. Posey

#66. Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers.

Brian A. McBride

#67. Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.

Dan Alatorre

#68. GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.

Lisa Washington

#69. A pen name is a nickname.

A.D. Posey

#70. Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive.

Adam Ross

#71. Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#72. As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#73. Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

Dave Barry

#74. Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.

Lisa Fantino

#75. I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.

Beth Revis

#76. Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.
Today is the day you become a writer.

Alessandra Torre

#77. 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

#78. A fiery spirit bursts from your soul.

A.D. Posey

#79. When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.

M.E. Vaughan

#80. Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#81. How....will I ever truly depict you?
You're perfect, my writing isn't.

Sanober Khan

#82. When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#83. There is always, always, always something to write about.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#84. Remember once you have your dream, write it down!

Samuel Colbran

#85. Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge

Derric Yuh Ndim

#86. When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#87. Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#88. Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Niall Williams

#89. A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Brandi L. Bates

#90. How you define an event produces emotion
and determines how you feel going forward

Derric Yuh Ndim

#91. Be a burst of joy.

A.D. Posey

#92. I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

Sara Bareilles

#93. my poetry is merely a body.
you are the soul in my words.

Sanober Khan

#94. You think you have no 'talent'? Write anyway. lots of people with 'talent' don't actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than anyone claiming to have 'talent.

M. Kirin

#95. Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!

Avijeet Das

#96. Crying cleanses the soul.

A.D. Posey

#97. Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.

Bob Mayer

#98. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Mary Pipher

#99. Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom

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