Inspiration Quotes - Page 106

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.

Khaled Hosseini

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place.Trust your demon.

Roger Zelazny

The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

E B White

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

Alma Alexander

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

Jincy Willett

...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.

Jincy Willett

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

Betsy Byars

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Neil Gaiman

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

William Faulkner

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

Joseph Campbell

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

W Somerset Maugham

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Washington Irving

I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.

Beth Revis

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.

Joseph Campbell

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

Josip Novakovich

Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!

Dee Marie

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

Ian McEwan

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter. . . Recording the details of our lives is a stance against bombs with their mass ability to kill, against too much speed and efficiency. A writer must say yes to life, to all of life: the water glasses, the Kemp's half-and-half, the ketchup on the counter. It is not a writer's task to say, "It is dumb to live in a small town or to eat in a café when you can eat macrobiotic at home." Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life as they exist – the real truth of who we are: several pounds overweight, the gray, cold street outside, the Christmas tinsel in the showcase, the Jewish writer in the orange booth across from her blond friend who has black children. We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be no more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop these details from continuing.

Natalie Goldberg

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

Joss Whedon

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.

Charles Bukowski

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

Benjamin Disraeli

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

Octavia E. Butler

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

John Waters

Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]

Toni Morrison

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Saul Bellow

In general, if we leave out the atheistic fraction of world population that possesses no notable optimistic or positive Qualia of God, the majority of the human species possesses a beneficial Qualia of God enriched with blissful sentiments.

Abhijit Naskar

Do not speak wickedness, Tania. God can yet deliver us, if He chooses. If not, we shall glorify Him with our deaths. Jonah Havalseth

Sandra Kopp

God is my happy place

Izey Victoria Odiase

Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.

Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

Failure should be archived in head, not heart.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now.

Germany Kent

Step out on faith and walk into your purpose.

Germany Kent

We came from different backgrounds; he was white from privileged class in America, and I black from a village in Africa, but he was kind generous, and he reached out to this young poor black boy. He changed the odds against me. Our friendship rose above race.

FRIENDSHIP: A True Story of Adventure

When you see yourself in a shattered mirror, don't think of it as the broken pieces of yourself. Think of it as all of the pieces that make up you.

Blaque Diamond

Look Below and You'll feel Rich,Look Above and You'll feel Poor

Vineet Raj Kapoor

If you have faith in yourself you will never lick the dust of defeat in any ground

Saad Khan

Believed in numbers. But doubt the nobility of the Truth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The focus is faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Is there any good works without grace?

Lailah Gifty Akita

Whoever wishes to be free, shall seek the faith of liberty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Christ Jesus is the Church.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not be your own devil.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Son of God is the Saviour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Christianity is faith in a Righteous God .

Lailah Gfty Akita

To forgive is to love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Christ Jesus dwell in the hearts of a community of faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Years ago I asked my friend, the great actress Ruth Gordon, to articulate in a few words the secret to her indomitable, unsinkable spirit. Her reply was a gift that became a mantra for me:“It takes courage.It takes believing in it.It takes work.It takes rising above it.It takes me liking you, and you liking me.It takes the dreaming soul of the human race that wants it to go right.Never stop dreaming.Think about it.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Without faith, we faint.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I made the fearful decision to head to Sydney, Australia, to study the Bible. My calling, my wife, Laura, my church, my passion—all were behind the scariest door of all time. Since that day, this remains exactly true: Fear never leaves. But the way we handle it can always change.

Carl Lentz

We are spiritual children of God the Father. We preach it. We sing it. But do we really understand it? Sometimes it’s easy to tell others they are loved, but not so easy to believe it of ourselves — not because we don’t think God loves His children, but because we may feel undeserving of His love. The adversary loves to remind us who we are not. Not pretty. Not smart. Not strong. But God would not have sacrificed His Son to save us if we aren’t worth saving.

Toni Sorenson

Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.

Rob Bell

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.

Thomas Merton

Satisfaction in life doesn't jump on you, you work for it, you earn it. You will not sit in a place, fold your hands and expect to be satisfied with life.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

Criss Jami

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

Tobsha Learner

It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul.

Molly Friedenfeld

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Aberjhani

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

Terry Tempest Williams

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