Writer Inspiration Quotes

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

To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your shoulder, and it will call to you, and you will answer. And come back even stronger."
― Kathleen M. Rodgers ~ Kathleen M. Rodgers

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. ~ Juan Goytisolo

All great writers share one thing in common:

They finished their books. ~ M. Kirin

Writers are made, they are not born. ~ Chris Mentillo

Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today. ~ Martha Alderson

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART. ~ M. Kirin

Well, I definitely advise anyone who wants to write, write. Don't let anyone tell you that you shouldn't. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't. Because a lot of people can be very discouraging to people who say they want to be a professional writer. If you want to do it, then chase it. Chase your dreams. Follow your heart. If that's what you want, go after it. Write it out. You never know, you could be the next big thing. ~ Helena Lancaster

Write each day as if no one will see it, yet write in a way as if the whole world will see it. ~ Jon Mills

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

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

Do you think you're not 'ready' to start that big story idea/project you've been thinking about forever?

Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of faith. ~ M. Kirin

You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write. ~ M. Kirin

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted. ~ Harlan Coben

Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history. ~ M. Kirin

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself. ~ M. Kirin

If I believed people who told me you can't make a living as a writer, I wouldn't be making a living as a writer. ~ William Meikle

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

How do you paint a writer's block?
Just fill it with fifty shades of black. ~ Ana Claudia Antunes

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation. ~ Harlan Coben

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader. ~ Aman Jassal

Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and terrorism employed by Muslim extremists is rooted in the Quran and its message. Spencer calls the Quran, a book sacred to Muslim, 'the jihadists' Mein Kampf,' in reference to Hitler's memoir. ~ Louay M. Safi

A spiritually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it. ~ Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. ~ Neil Cross

People keep asking me ... How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself. ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Those who always think of their aches can never do what it takes!-RVM ~ R.v.m.

What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. ~ Barack Obama

Before you speak "THINK"
T- Is it "True"?
H- Is it "Humble"?
I- Is it "Inspirational"?
N- Is it "Natural"?
K- Is it "Knowledgeable"? ~ Abhinav Kushwaha

Hanging out in coffee shops and talking about one day being a writer or an activist or an entrepreneur is just about the worst thing you can do. ~ Jeff Goins

True. We both could. One of these days our search history is going to tip off the NSA and then we're going to be in trouble. It was a valid worry for a writer. ~ Chelsea M. Cameron

My father would have been impressed by Barack Obama's mind and style and grace of manner, as well as by - I'm certain - his abilities as a writer. ~ Christopher Buckley

When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster. ~ Libba Bray

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes. ~ Andrew Bird

There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well spent. And there are writers-sometimes the same ones, sometimes not-to whom you are powerfully attracted, for reasons that may or may not have to do with literary values. They speak to you, or speak for you, sometimes with a voice that could almost be your own. Often there is one writer in particular who awakens you, who is the teacher they say you will meet when you are ready for the lesson. ~ James D. Houston

Even though the numbers are down with respect to favorability ratings, at every embassy and consular office tomorrow morning that we have, people will be lined up, and they'll all say the same thing, "We want to go to America." So we're still the leader of the world that wants to be free. We are still the inspiration of the rest of the world. And we can come back. ~ Colin Powell

I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors. ~ Douglas Preston

We must give people the chance to change. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!! ~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ~ Richard Russo

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it. ~ Jonathan Evison

It is the responsibility of parent to love and care for their children. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God. ~ Walter Russell

As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in the process of imagining a book is to disappear. ~ Susan Shreve

I was always taught them when you're lucky enough to learn something or have some advantage you should share it. ~ Areva Martin

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there. ~ Valerie Simpson

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people ~ Mark Twain

Instruction is important but inspiration kindles the candle for a life time. ~ Debasish Mridha

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration. ~ Wayne Newton

Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great fiction. ~ Marty Rubin

Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness. ~ Quentin Bryce

When a person finds life hard, he needs motivation and inspiration; but if he finds life's journey easy, then he needs meditation and introspection to know the true quality of his life. ~ Anuj

One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do
you can either type or kill yourself. ~ Anne Lamott

perhaps it is clear why a writer should be interested in the constant, bullying, murderous, slovenly crime of war. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Every morning is a chance for a change ~ Jacob Kimchy

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots. ~ Sally Jo Martine

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know. ~ Sarah Dessen