Top 100 Writing Inspirational Quotes
#1. The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business.
Norman Vincent Peale
#2. You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.
A.D. Posey
#3. Accept nothing. Challenge everything.
A.D. Posey
#4. I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#6. Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.
William Goldman
#7. Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#9. As an author, I want to write what I'm inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I'm writing.
Colleen Hoover
#10. Writing is not about ideas, it is about the expression of ideas - a written expression.
Paul Raymond Martin
#11. But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he'd come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.
Penelope Douglas
#12. Don't worry about the consequences, just be a writer!
Samuel Colbran
#13. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#14. With words ... one can cut & kill:but also one can cure and heal.
Darrius Garrett
#15. Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
John Updike
#16. I have learned one lesson as a writer ... keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today ... may be used for other books tomorrow.
Timothy Pina
#17. What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?
Dinty W. Moore
#18. You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be.
A.D. Posey
#21. The shock of recognition is a moment of excitement that shakes the soul. It may be hard to describe, but like other forms of love, you will know it when you feel it.
Stephen Koch
#22. Don't look.
See.
Don't think.
Feel.
Don't hear.
Listen.
Pay attention
Miracles really do happen every day
A.D. Posey
#23. The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.
Sally Odgers
#24. Energy will go into what you love, and what you love will grow. Go for a walk and watch it bloom.
A.D. Posey
#25. Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds
Randy Mitchell
#26. Once we start writing with a pen, we are not allowed to erase our mistakes, we are forced to deal with it.
Akansh Malik
#27. I eat, breath and sleep and that makes me like everyone else. When I write, I become something much greater than flesh & bone; something that will stay behind long after that part of me is gone. Writing makes me special, readers make me everlasting.
C.K. Webb
#28. Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#29. There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#30. Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet.
The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe. It only requires an open mind and heart.
J.R. Ortiz
#31. Read something worth writing about or write something worth reading about
Anonymous
#32. I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.
Wesley D. Gray
#33. Storytellers are powerful and we are all storytellers.
Tsara Shelton
#34. Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor.
Euginia Herlihy
#35. Maybe we should all just shut up and read a good book.
Mary Sisney
#37. And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.
Avijeet Das
#39. No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
Howard Gardner
#42. Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick - then it's personal. The bad guy isn't just the "bad guy" anymore, he's the BAD GUY!
Michael J. Sullivan
#43. I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Live whatever draws out the magic within.
A.D. Posey
#46. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.
Neil Gaiman
#47. Writing is the birth of my closure. Either it splits me open and comes out easy with tears or it pushes me to hysterics. Whichever way, it brings me a new life.
Sandra Proto
#48. The only reason you can't write is because you don't.
A.A. Patawaran
#49. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#50. I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.
Leon Uris
#52. My pen.' Funny, I wrote that without noticing. 'The torch', 'the paper', but 'my pen'. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It's about the most important thing I own.
John Marsden
#54. So I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts.
Stephen King
#55. Live to write. Write to inspire. Inspire to write.
Chi Wen
#57. When your heart is open, your eyes see the beauty that is all around you.
A.D. Posey
#58. Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.
Meagan Spooner
#60. Words will change your future
Jade
#61. It's always more than just a story.
A.D. Posey
#62. The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.
Victor LaValle
#63. I write because I always want good to win over evil
Anamika Mishra
#64. 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
#65. It's amazing what you can do when you get creative.
A.D. Posey
#66. Your life should reflect your heart.
A.D. Posey
#67. But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer?
J.F. Penn
#68. Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]
Maxwell Perkins
#69. Love is the key to everything. Love your life.
A.D. Posey
#70. There is no time for holding back.
A.D. Posey
#71. Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.
Neal A. Maxwell
#72. Fallon and I were a lot like them. Only I didn't love her, and she didn't love me. I was infatuated with her once - and loved that she let me take my pubescent urges out on her - but we weren't in love.
Penelope Douglas
#74. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
Brett Armstrong
#76. There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.
Gerry Abbey
#77. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
Dan Brown
#79. You can't undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.
A.D. Posey
#80. When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions you craft from the memory.
Maureen Murdock
#81. When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory of feelings and musings from which they can choose and infuse into their words and characters.
David Perry
#82. 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
#83. Creativity is magic in the making.
A.D. Posey
#84. I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.
R.D. Ronald
#85. Yes, it was scary, but every time I got a frisson of fear I tried to remember what Frank Quinn was always telling me. "Susan, believe in yourself. You are the person writing your story.
Susan Boyle
#86. Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.
Christy Hall
#87. The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you'll have enough to light up a movie screen.
A.D. Posey
#89. Take a deep breath. Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.
A.D. Posey
#90. There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible.
Terri Windling
#91. The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.
Katherine Paterson
#92. Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
Jonathan Franzen
#93. Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.
A.D. Posey
#94. I write because I know world I create is much beautiful than the world I live in
Anamika Mishra
#95. A love of writing is far greater than any word count.
Molly Looby
#96. If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?
Lauren B. Davis
#97. Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.
A.D. Posey
#99. Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.
A.D. Posey
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