Writers Inspiration Quotes

Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it! ~ Avijeet Das

Remember once you have your dream, write it down! ~ Samuel Colbran

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

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

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

It's a strange irony that most people who are truly creative don't really know where their ideas come from. To be a writer, just like all crafts, is an art form. You can take evening classes in writing at the local library, where you go along every Tuesday night and read out your weekly piece, and that can serve to improve your expertise a little, but to be a Wrong Planet writer you have to first of all be an artist. The art of searching for words radiates from deep inside the writer, and I truly feel that when a true writer is sitting quietly at his desk his movements are beautifully interwoven. His breathing will even come with an effortless grace. The ability to move fluidly in his study in this manner begins with a truly intuitive knowledge, although if the truth were known, there's a little bit of insanity in the writer that does everyone an awful lot of good. ~ Karl Wiggins

A writer is chosen by the universe to be the architect of the next generation. ~ Avijeet Das

When I first started following writers on social media, I imagined a deluge of profound quotes, writing tips and insights into the plight of wordsmiths. There was some of that. Mostly though, my timeline was taken up with their obsession with coffee: 'I want coffee/I'm having coffee/I've had coffee.' Then came photos of their favourite coffee mug/pot/shop/barista. So, if you've enjoyed a recently-published book, give credit to writers: the vampiric aficionados of the coffee cherry. ~ Stewart Stafford

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

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn't build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing. ~ Niall Williams

A writer of any merit does not worry about being accepted everywhere. He must write to inspire, to change for the better or to challenge the status quo! ~ Avijeet Das

The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,
The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher.
They all hear
The speaking of the Tree.
They hear the first and last of every Tree
Speak to humankind today. Come to me, here beside the River.
Plant yourself beside the River. ~ Maya Angelou

Words come alive from a page or script because both the writer and actor were brave enough to neither deny or invent their truth ~ Val Uchendu

Life is beauty simply breathing. ~ A.D. Posey

As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess. ~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel. ~ Claire Wingfield

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

A Writer Must Have Text Appeal ~ Khaled Talib

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up. ~ B.A. Gabrielle

It's my selfish desire to be inspired by you. Artistes are the muses of each other. ~ Avijeet Das

Spread sunshine and inspiration. ~ Juliet M. Sampson

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view. ~ Susan J. McIntire

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

Every book I've read appears in my writing. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

It's a great day to write a best-seller. ~ Buffy Andrews

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular. ~ Anatole Broyard

I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense. ~ Dara Horn

That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community
Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO ~ Chuck Palahniuk

I think that our lyrics are definitely dark, but I know for a fact that we pull our inspiration from a million different influences. We listened to everything growing up. Our music isn't just 'opera metal' or 'gothic pop' it's just Evanescence. ~ Evanescence

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it. ~ Nomar Garciaparra

I can never be Michael Jackson or do what he did, but he is definitely a good inspiration: I want to give the kids that feeling. ~ The Weeknd

Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up. ~ Ashwin Sanghi

A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty and solitude of that truth. In this respect, children and women in love are born writers. ~ Christian Bobin

My hearts desired divine twins,
My guardian angels,
Jeremias-Jean Joachim Akita
Lia-Lachelle Lisette Akita ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I can write three hundred and sixty-five grateful thanks.
Cultivate the habit to write gratitude daily. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true. ~ Juan Enriquez

I do not seek to change the world… I wish to inspire it, for through inspiration comes the rebirth of faith. ~ Emry Kale Owens

I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life. ~ Paul Winter

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way. ~ Cory Booker

Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes. ~ Amit Kalantri

As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful' ~ Mark Twain

If you lead with your heart, you will go to the most amazing places. ~ Cindy McDonald

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. ~ Gore Vidal

The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from. ~ James Altucher

If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad. ~ Pankaj Mishra

Let your own experience serve as your guide and inspiration. Let yourself enjoy the view as you travel along the path. The view is your own mind, and because your mind is already enlightened, if you take the opportunity to rest awhile along the journey, eventually you'll realize that the place you want to reach is the place you already are. ~ Yongey Mingyur

The spirit knows what lies in the heart. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquility, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight - disappointment and defeat - become the sole legacy of our cowardice. ~ Paulo Coelho

Her chest full of crisp air and inspiration, her feet atop a forgettable mountain where the stars make you feel insignificant and important all at once.
And she sang. ~ Ben Montgomery

Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write. ~ Jonathan Maberry

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed. ~ John Banville

Don't try to describe an orgasm if you've never had one. ~ Marty Rubin

I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don't tell that, and people will think you're not a good girl, and your grandmother's going to be mad at you and all of those things. ~ Pearl Cleage

I was never happier than on the nights we stayed home, lying on the living room rug. We talked about classes and poetry and politics and sex. Neither of us were in love with the Iowa Writers' Workshop, but it didn't really matter because we had no place else to go. What we had was the little home we made together, our life in the ugly green duplex. We lived next door to a single mother named Nancy Tate who was generous in all matters. She would drive us to the grocery store and give us menthol cigarettes and come over late at night after her son was asleep to sit in our kitchen and drink wine and talk about Hegel and Marx. Iowa City in the eighties was never going to be Paris in the twenties, but we gave it our best shot. ~ Ann Patchett

It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out. ~ Grace Coolidge

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business. ~ Kevin Plank

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will. ~ William James

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. ~ Jim Morrison

Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then. ~ Claire Cook

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do. ~ Ellen Gilchrist

Whether if you're a beginner poet or an experienced poet, poets just as other writers would like to have more readers enjoy their work. Whether if you're a poet laureate or novice, or if you're written over 1,000 poems, anytime a poet writes a poem its like their first one, beautiful in its inherent beauty. ~ Reynaldo Casison

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos. ~ Norman Mailer

Cornelius rose. He dried his eyes. For his spirit and will were waterproof. ~ Phil Bildner

Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You have to be afraid of failure. You have to be terrified; it's the only force that will drive you mercilessly to succeed. ~ Aaron Dennis

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness. ~ George W. Romney

So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince. ~ Emily Levine

Love is fuel for the soul. ~ Molly Friedenfeld