Writing Inspiration Quotes

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. ~ Chila Woychik

Your personal writing can heal, grow, and transform your life. Give your words permission to change you. ~ Sandra Marinella

Allowing yourself to make mistakes can ultimately go beyond a writer's block. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri

It wasn't until I started writing that I found a whole new appreciation for reading. ~ Justin Bienvenue

Writing is like making a delicious cake. Use the best ingredients, layer the flavors, and finish it with panache. If your product is made with good taste, people will ask for more. ~ Claudia McCants

I write to be the characters that I am not. ~ Joss Whedon

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing ... ~ Josip Novakovich

Writing is the knitting of the soul ~ Khaled Talib

If a plot is a novel's skeleton, and characters are the muscle, then theme is its soul. ~ Janice Hardy

A pen is never worthless. In the right hand, it holds a whole world and all the treasures you could ever want. Now write your story. All of it. ~ Ian Baucom

Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits. ~ Nadun Lokuliyanage

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

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

A writer feels happy when the words connect with the reader's heart. ~ Avijeet Das

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour. ~ Charlotte Eriksson

If at first you don't succeed--write more! ~ N.B. Williams

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read! ~ A.A. Patawaran

The biggest misconception is that I only write about shitty people. Or that I'm trying to be shocking. I just think people are super weird, so I like to write characters that get addicted to things, lose their minds, hurt others, put themselves in bad situations. I'm just more interested in that. ~ Leslye Headland

Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears are tucked away inside your soul. Or leave you with smiles for miles, depending on which route you go. ~ Renee Dixon

I work my inspiration til I find a spark of life in it
I draw on it
I siphon it
I earn my multi-hyphenate. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world... ~ Virginia Alison

If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an exit strategy. ~ Kelvin Kwa

If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing. ~ Joseph Eastwood

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. ~ Dan Alatorre

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

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

Try as we might, we write what we write ~ B.G. Thurston

You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. ~ Steven Brust

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

Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration. ~ T.N. Suarez

Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that. ~ Amy Tan

I you tell a lie, you have to tell ten more to keep it alive. A story is just a lie with a good exit strategy. ~ Kelvin Kwa

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. ~ William Faulkner

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

Stories hang from the trees, hive under the coffee table, gather like glass on the corners of the road. To pick them up one needs simply to focus one's eye and keep a steady hand. Writing focuses the eye; writing develops the steadiness of one's hand. ~ Bonnie Friedman

As long you are still living, you can achieve far more than you could ever imagined ~ Benjamin Suulola

As a form of body language, when the mind is receptive to the sensory experience, writing speaks the truth about all thoughts and feelings. Now I don't want to be misunderstood here because this isn't a special talent or skill. It's present in all of us. The trick is to discover it, cultivate it and translate it from an internal state to an expressive sensuality. It is truly a creative impulse that unconsciously expresses emotions and can also arouse emotion in the person reading the book. The beauty and harmony of the writer never gets old and there are as many new things to learn each day, as there are varieties of adjectives, nouns and verbs in the world. It is the ultimate way to communicate with your reader. ~ Karl Wiggins

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

Keep writing. It's all terrible in the beginning. ~ A.K. Kuykendall

I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you ingest in that day. (Note: this rule does not apply to poets who write in the short-form. You, my boys and girls, are free as birds!) ~ Roman Payne

When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

...all the grace I saw then was his own: simple, unadorned, glorious. ~ Madeline Miller

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

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! ~ John Gaver

Writer's block is like a full moon behind the rain clouds. ~ Archana Kapoor Nagpal

I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing. ~ Moby

Writing comes from deep within, seeping out of the soul onto the white of paper. It carries with it the lifeblood of the artist, exposing their secrets to the world. ~ Amber E. Box

Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity. ~ Diana Jane Heath

To produce new works a writer will use a kind of sixth sense as well as the logical process. He'll enjoy playing with words, and that'll help his brain to relax and produce better ideas. His study is where he discovers order and finds hidden meanings in the words. He'll enjoy expanding the boundaries of what is feasible, and is possibly motivated more by the writing itself than by the hard cash that is the reward for writing. ~ Karl Wiggins

The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them. ~ Bruno Schulz

It's what we don't say that weighs the most. ~ Abhysheq Shukla

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 ~ Karl Wiggins

I am a wordy writer, and often churn out pages on end without advancing the plot a jot. Hence I try to take my cue from a childhood impatience with any device that doesn't get somewhere. Even in his sprightly youth, Clippity had a problem with running in place - just like my first drafts - when the surface was too slick. As a kid, I was ingenious enough to smear green Plasticine on his rear hooves. Thus I discovered the importance of traction, as handy a concept in literature as for wind-up toys. ~ Lionel Shriver

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ... ~ Evelyn Waugh

Don't ever let yourself surrender to writer's block. ~ Julie Wenzel

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters. ~ Brian A. McBride

You can't have a conversation with your descendants when you are dead, but they can when they are alive; write a book! ~ Lamine Pearlheart

Just Keep Writing! Who cares if it's a Saturday, or if you left your laptop at home, or if you're around people? Just write one word, one line, jot down one idea. No matter how little you write, it's movement in the right direction. Forward. Toward completion. ~ Tammy Ferebee

Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive. ~ Rana Dasgupta

Words are the writer's hocus-pocus, our dark arts and our deception. They're our charm and our temptation. Sometimes the writer overindulges himself and it gets out of hand, but that's how we like it, it's how we've ghosted some of our best creations. ~ Karl Wiggins

I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing ~ Groucho Marx

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ~ Joss Whedon

Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material. ~ Joyce Rachelle

It's a struggle to become the man that you want to be. It's harder than you want, it's longer than you want and it takes more out of you than...than you expect that it should. ~ Abhysheq Shukla

I get my best writing done when I'm supposed to be doing something else entirely. And that's why I keep my day job. ~ Joyce Rachelle

Every moment offers a great opportunity to write. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper. ~ Ridley Pearson

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

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing. ~ John Braine

What doesn't kill me provides writing material. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Correspondence, which bears much the same relation to personal intercourse that the books of dried plats I sometimes see do to the living and fresh flowers in the lanes and meadows. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

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

There are some things I would like to say through my writing. It is there in those things where my writing is born, and then breathes on it's own. ~ Roger Raffee

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. ~ Maria Reeves

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. ~ Maegan Cook

Tonight I Can Write ~ Pablo Neruda

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company. ~ Eliza Green

The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer. ~ Anastasia Bolinder

My theory is you shouldn't apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her. ~ Laurie Seidler

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Inspiration comes from the act of writing. ~ Steve Doll

Heal yourself with a book! ~ Samuel Colbran

When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went. ~ M.E. Vaughan

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. ~ Sally Hepworth

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

When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought "If THAT guy ever came back, he probably wouldn't be in a saving mood." ~ Stephen King

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

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood. ~ Selena Haskins

I write, therefore I am. ~ Veena Kashyap

I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul. ~ Wesley D. Gray

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

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

We all obsess over our novel's first lines, and rightly so because from it the rest of the story must flow naturally and without pause. ~ A.K. Kuykendall

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them. ~ R.K. King

Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush. ~ Lizzy Grimm

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

An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it. ~ Chrys Fey

It really was a whole generation who were listening to Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins, James Moody, Fats Navarro and, a little bit later on, Mongo Santamaría and Chuck Berry, and these dozen or so guys gave them a voice. They led the way. They wrote what a whole generation wanted to read. The time was right and they seized the day by writing about their lives. They travelled, they got into scrapes, they got arrested, they got wasted … and they wrote about it.

Isn't that something? ~ Karl Wiggins