Best 181 quotes in «writing inspiration quotes» category

If writing didn't create emotional risk, then it wouldn't be worth doing.

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs

. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.

If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.

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.

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

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.

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 used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking

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

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

Love and DEATH are two uninvited guests, when they come nobody knows but both do the same work, one takes the HEART and the other one takes its BEATS

My writing mirrors and reflects the global intuition by all the various faculties of the mind and perception, whether one agrees or disagrees with it. However, I evaluate and learn from both ones and regard both since it beautifies and fragrances my visionary stance

Never let the disparaging comments of a myopic individual influence your life. Life is short, Appreciate it.

My muse is a restless genie, a conniving devil, a wanton mistress and a fairy godmother. At times he’s Othello’s Iago, at others he’s Clarence from 'It’s a Wonderful Life'.

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.

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

Only the dead know the true meaning of patience.

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

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

One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

Only Love or Death can bring peace - I leave it on destiny to decide which one will find me first.

Our writing can transform us.

Our brains allow us to adapt and change -- to write and rewrite who we are.

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

People who say you’ll never amount to much as a writer (or even those exhibiting indifference) are speaking from gross ignorance. They are comparing your stumbling, incomplete draft – seen or unseen – and their anecdotal knowledge of you as a person to their favourite writer’s best-selling novel. Unfair in the extreme.

She was taller than I was, taller than any woman I had ever seen. Her black hair was loose down her back, and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

She said "I want you to ruin me" And my pen made her into poetry!

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Some books are so alive that they never leave you. They only change you

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.

That is my mother's lyre,' I almost said. The words were in my mouth, and behind them others crowded close. 'That is my lyre.

Sometimes the most significant moments happen in your life without any choice at all.

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

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!

The islands looked all the same to me--high cliffs bleached white, pebbled beaches that scratched the underside of our ships with their chalky fingernails.

The journey to my writing success is trying yet I will arrive, for I believe in the author of my inspiration.

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.

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

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.

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.

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

There are thorny, unfinished chapters being written in our lives all the time. Writing can help us find our way through these challenges.

The meaning of your work can’t be summed up by an engagement button on social media.

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.