Inspiration To Write Quotes

I write to be the characters that I am not.

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

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

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

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

You fail only if you stop writing.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.