Writing Inspiration Quotes

Writing Inspiration Quote of the day

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Inspiration is for amateurs.

The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

You fail only if you stop writing.

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'

It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

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.

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job.

I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!

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

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

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

Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.

Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

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

Authors can alter your life.

Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.

Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.

When is now.

You -have- to love your monster.

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

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.

Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end.

When in doubt, go the scandalous route.

Kissing her to keep her quiet was the best idea that he’d had all week. One hand drifted into her loose hair as she responded to each kiss, while the other caught her waist and held her close to him.

The best kind of day is a writing day

You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.