Inspirational Writing Quotes

Inspirational Writing Quote of the day

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Tears are words that need to be written.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

I don't write for a living. I live to write.

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

Writing is the great invention of the world.