Inspirational Writing Quotes

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating.

A goal is a written plan.Write your dreams and visions.

Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice." -Cheryl L. Ilov, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond.

Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.

Live first, write second.

Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice.

Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

Your story must told.Live a life legacy- written book or notes.This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.

To wake up every day with a whisper of a dream and then put pen to paper to make it a reality

I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.

Always write as if you will never have the blessed chance to write again, so this has to be the best thing you've ever done. Do that, and it will be.

Ignore people who say you can't do it, even if this person is yourself.

The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat and clarity of the sun.

You are more ready and able to grasp at opportunity when your hands are empty.

Lost in New York City. Not that I don't know where I am, but rather perplexed as to where I am going.

I am the sum of my past experience.Some people have got a lot to answer for.

On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses.I kept on walking.

If your screen stays blank or your notepad empty, God cannot use your words.

The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

Pity the cat, thinks the writer, for I live as many lives as I can imagine.

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

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.

Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.

The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Written words can also sing.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

A good idea always attracts other good ideas.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

Write because you love to write.