Writing Inspiration Quotes - Page 2

Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation

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

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

The Page awaits the Inspiration even as Inspiration roams the world of man, seeking a Page upon which to unfurl itself, body and soul, bare yet clothed in immortality if not immediacy.And the gods said, “Let there be a Page, and many a Page,” and there was a Book. And we saw that the Book was good.

Dementia isn’t the only place that memories are found to be flawed—people find out they can’t rely on their memories every day. People blindsided in relationships. People who find out their truth is a lie. People pulled from trauma. People awakened, as in Anna and Eve. I wondered: If you can’t use memories to steer your life, what can you use? I didn’t know. It was why I had to write this book.

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

Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

You cannot write if you are not angry

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.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people.

Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.

The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping on broken glass - bleeds, recoils, then steps again.

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

Trawling through a dusty attic of my addled memory I found that I’d been rather in a lot of daft and amusing situations, so I set about writing them down. The only problem being that I was a lot better at telling stories than writing them, probably because telling them involves a lot less typing and a lot more shouting.

You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise

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

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Writing is self-pleasure

The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

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

The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you're at the end of the book and yet, there is no resolution. Then he hits you with those last six words. Better yet, the power is in the very last word. Wow!

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

Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little capacity for unyielding imagination, whereas the natural-born writer can do little but yield to the tug of imagination. Ordinary people may practice for years to 'perfect' the challenge of writing; but the one destined to create and destroy with the stroke of a pen, the strike of the key, their wells of imagination shall never run dry.

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your own.

A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his understanding of the words. The words themselves have to be open to new ideas and suggestions, and the writer himself must have the audacity to attempt new things and to risk failure

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

A good writer reveals beauty in the mundane and truth in tragedy. Words are a tool; a currency of the mind, and the best writers weave passages into our hearts that our bones remember.

Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a "like" and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…

Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

You cannot write if you are not on fire

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

Every book I've read appears in my writing.

Don’t ever let yourself surrender to writer’s block.

True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact

Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.

You never know what you will write until you write it