Writer S Inspiration Quotes

#1. A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#2. My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

Patricia MacLachlan

#3. If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write.

Joyce Rachelle

#4. And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.

Carl Hiaasen

#6. The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

Orhan Pamuk

#7. In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present.

Michael Poeltl

#8. The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

Lynn Flewelling

#9. It's called "being an artist" for a reason; it's something YOU ARE. It's how you live. It's WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.

Charlotte Eriksson

#10. I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

Elmore Leonard

#11. Don't ever let yourself surrender to writer's block.

Julie Wenzel

#12. Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.

Chris Adrian

#13. Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration.

Sue Monk Kidd

#14. A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

Stephanie Lennox

#15. A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there.

A.A. Patawaran

#16. The spirit of an artist's gifts can wake our own.

Lewis Hyde "The Gift"

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

Dermott Hayes

#18. Don't forget Who you are writing for. It's easy to get discouraged when people don't like your writing, but that's just it. They're people. You don't want to serve people, you want to serve God. Write for Him, and ignore what other people say. It just doesn't matter.

Ivy Rose

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

A.D. Posey

#20. The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Adam Johnson

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

Rob Bignell, Editor

#22. Writer's block is like a full moon behind the rain clouds.

Archana Kapoor Nagpal

#23. As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better
but you keep working anyway.

Ivan Turgenev

#24. How do you paint a writer's block?
Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#25. The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

Paul Dano

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

M. Kirin

#27. I guess like any writer or screenwriter I'm alone in my own world so much of the time that I'm often trying to force myself out of my world. Into more risk. A less controlled kind of inspiration. I'm so keenly aware of how easy it's getting to not leave the house, with Amazon, especially.

Miranda July

#28. 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

#29. My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.

Anne Lamott

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

M. Kirin

#31. Learn the writer's craft, write regularly, grow to love the practice for its own sake-and inspiration will either come on a particular day or it won't, but you'll have prepared the way for it.

Dennis Palumbo