Quotes About Writing Inspiration

#1. I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

Aleksandar Hemon

#2. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon

Jaeda DeWalt

#3. Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.

Janey Colbourne

#4. how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written.

Sanober Khan

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

Joyce Rachelle

#6. Writing comes from deep within, seeping out of the soul onto the white of paper. It carries with it the lifeblood of the artist, exposing their secrets to the world.

Amber E. Box

#7. May God redeem mankind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. To write is to release the soul. So write. What right have we to leave a thing of such beauty bottled within ourselves?

Brian A. McBride

#9. The essential key for writing is to write regularly - like it or not - great ideas come often by writing; releasing the subconscious - waiting for inspiration and ideas will not work, but it does help to have a notebook with you all the time for sudden brainstorms or inspiration.

Robert Marc Friedman

#10. 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

#11. A love of writing is far greater than any word count.

Molly Looby

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

Claire Wingfield

#13. Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki

Julia Suzuki

#14. Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

Ann Patchett

#15. People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#16. The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

Steven Pressfield

#17. Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Jonathan Franzen

#18. Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search ... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.

Italo Calvino

#19. Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

Guadalupe Neri

#20. That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.

Megan Smith

#21. You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

#22. Art is craft, not inspiration.

Stephen Sondheim

#23. 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

#24. When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.

Kelly Link

#25. I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

Pixie Lott

#26. You're writing someone's 'future' favorite book.

M. Kirin

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Dan Poynter

#30. I follow where the story goes. Always. Every time. Sometimes it goes places where I'm not comfortable ... it's at those times that I just listen to my characters, hold on with both hands, and trust that my readers won't lynch me later.

Dennis Sharpe

#31. Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.

Don Roff

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

Avijeet Das

#33. Be the author of your life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#35. Crying cleanses the soul.

A.D. Posey

#36. Inspiration surrounds us, the creation is our responsibility as artists.-Lyn Crain

Lyn Crain

#37. 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

#38. Today I fed him right off the bat, and only checked Facebook twice.

Chila Woychik

#39. I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, "I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders and it has to be 309 pages long and I need fourteen chapters and a prologue.

Michael McDowell

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

Mary Pipher

#41. Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God.

Natalie Goldberg

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

Walt Disney Company

#43. If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing.

Joseph Eastwood

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

Rob Bignell, Editor

#45. People don't remember lessons. They remember stories.

Kamand Kojouri

#46. I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves
you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Ray Bradbury

#47. Great work doesn't make me jealous; it makes me want to work.

Glen Hirshberg

#48. When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'll have a book.

Betsy Byars

#49. At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

Ian McEwan

#50. 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

#51. Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It's a way to find healing, and to healing others.

M. Kirin

#52. Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#53. Inspiration comes of working every day.

Charles Baudelaire

#54. 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

#55. Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#56. While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this seed sprang his monumental novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Alexander Steele

#57. The bar is high. But now you have a ladder.

Larry Brooks

#58. A pen name is a nickname.

A.D. Posey

#59. I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.

Wesley D. Gray

#60. I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

Julia Cameron

#61. I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of this world. That's my biggest inspiration when it comes to writing lyrics.

Tinchy Stryder

#62. 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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#64. Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

M. Kirin

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

Lisa Fantino

#66. While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

Steve Erickson

#67. Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#68. 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

#69. Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.

Diana Jane Heath

#70. To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

Steven Pressfield

#71. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.

F.K. Preston

#72. Just Keep Writing! Who cares if it's a Saturday, or if you left your laptop at home, or if you're around people? Just write one word, one line, jot down one idea. No matter how little you write, it's movement in the right direction. Forward. Toward completion.

Tammy Ferebee

#73. 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

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

Niall Williams

#75. I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#76. Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

Ren Garcia

#77. One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that one will find the biggest inspiration.' And he was right.

Sheryl Crow

#78. Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn't work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.

Sit down, and write.

M. Kirin

#79. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Charlotte Eriksson

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

Rob Bignell, Editor

#81. Though he had spoken of the subject many times, in the silence of his room he added the powerful kind of phrasing that would not have occurred to him as he spoke, because it's origins were in the collaboration of hand and pen.

Mark Helprin

#82. I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing

Groucho Marx

#83. Heal yourself with a book!

Samuel Colbran

#84. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

M. Kirin

#85. Authors can alter your life.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#86. I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can't write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers.

Chelsey Philpot

#87. It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.

Sara Sheridan

#88. 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

#89. Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

Sara Sheridan

#90. The Writing never stops...

W.W. Cass Jr.

#91. Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.

Mercedes M. Yardley

#92. To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

Aldous Huxley

#93. If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don't read big Tolkienesque fantasies - Tolkien didn't read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff.

Neil Gaiman

#94. 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

#95. I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.

John Mellencamp

#96. First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

Octavia E. Butler

#97. Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#98. I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.

Jerzy Kosinski

#99. 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

#100. Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he's far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can't afford self-doubt and he can't let other people's opinions, even a father's, keep him from writing.

Wallace Stegner