Writing Inspiration Quotes

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

Chrys Fey

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!

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.

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

Les Brown

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

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

Justin Bienvenue

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.

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

Bonnie Friedman

Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.

Lailah GiftyAkita

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

Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

Brian A. McBride

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

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.

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.

Guy Pratt

Writing's in the nouns.

Lori Roy

When in doubt, go the scandalous route.

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.

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.

Brian A. McBride

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

Stephanie Lennox

Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body is busy at noble tasks, creativity flows like water in a stream: the artist creates, the writer writes.

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.

Lee Bice-Matheson-Matheson

Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

R.K. King

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

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

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.

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.

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

Bernard Kelvin Clive

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Every book I've read appears in my writing.

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

Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every book has its ancestors

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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.

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

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.

We are inspired by divine power to write.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.

The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

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

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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