Quotes about writing-inspiration

Writers don't forget the past they turn it into raw material.

Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.

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.

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

You -have- to love your monster.

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

Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.

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

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allott

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.

You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

When in doubt, go the scandalous route.

Writing's in the nouns.

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.

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.

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

Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.

Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.

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

If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; however it takes experience to grow an imagination.

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!)

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

Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable idea as the writer occasionally balances a routine piece with an investment in the eccentric and untried. Over time, the reward is usually worth the risk

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

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.

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

Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

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

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

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.

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

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.

By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

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.

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.

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