Writing Inspiration Quotes

“Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

“The written word
Like a stone pillar
May last for centuries
Even if its meaning is forgotten.”
― Jack Borden

“When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought "If THAT guy ever came back, he probably wouldn't be in a saving mood."”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“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”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.”
― Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time

“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”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Allowing yourself to make mistakes can ultimately go beyond a writer’s block.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.”
― Harold Acton

“Try as we might, we write what we write”
― bg Thurston

“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.”
― Laurie Seidler, 22 Shelters: Lessons From Letters

“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”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping on broken glass - bleeds, recoils, then steps again.”
― Traci Lea LaRussa

“Words are the writer’s hocus-pocus, our dark arts and our deception. They’re our charm and our temptation. Sometimes the writer overindulges himself and it gets out of hand, but that’s how we like it, it’s how we’ve ghosted some of our best creations.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Why do I write? Because I have a lot to say.”
― Bert-Oliver Boehmer

“Чорні дубові буфети (креденси), оголені Катериною з срібла й дорогої порцеляни, ще дишуть старими добрими часами. Важкий, теж темний, круглий стіл з ногами у формі левиних голів з роззявленими пащами теж пам'ятає старі добрі часи. Старосвітський, шкіряний, колись темно-червоний, сьогодні почорнілий диван, з високим опертям та засмальцованим кружечком від таткової голови на ньому. Дві ясні плями на стінах по картинах, що їх забрала на Джерельну Катерина. Низько опущена фаянсова нафтова лампа, яку, відповідно духові часу, перероблено на електричну. Пожовклі, безліч разів штопані фіранки. Невід'ємний фікус, з мовби залізним листям. Шерстяні червоні у зелені полоски портьєри, перев'язані алюмінованими ланцюжками (старосвітсько!). Шкіряні, з високими спинками і вигідними поруччями крісла до комплекту з диваном. Вони, як диван, теж до комплекту полинялі і витерті.
От і вся панорама їдальні панства Річинських.”
― Ірина Вільде, Сестри Річинські, книга друга, частина друга

“The perfect person does not exist. There is no woman or man you would meet who would make you write poetry.

So poets create imaginary persons who could play muses in their life. And inspire them to write. I have met many people in life, but I have always enjoyed being alone.”
― Avijeet Das

“Here’s the deal, peeps—if you’re writing only for the love of money, quit now because you’ll never make enough. But if you’re writing for love and expression, you’ll never be able to write enough. That’s the difference.”
― Don Roff

“I am a Writer, and I don't believe in propagating 'hate' for another human being because of religion, caste, creed, nationality, or faith. I am a Writer, and I believe in looking for the good in everyone I meet. I am a Writer, and I am in charge of creating a better world. I am a Writer, and I know that my words will be my legacy for all the future generations of homo sapiens.”
― Avijeet Das

“Writing is a solitary existence. Even in isolation, the writer brings to life a fictional world reimagined by their own journey where love often looses luster. To right wrongs in a perfectly controlled environment is a writer's birthright. To compose harmonious language onto a page that somehow bewitches the reader to feel all those emotions as though it passed through them first and not the former is no accident. Nor supernatural. It's the writer's courage to delve deep enough to excavate the heart of the abyss.”
― J.S. Nathaniel

“My thoughts are liked by my fellow earthlings. Glad to know that after all the struggle that I have done and still doing, I have become someone worth quoting.”
― Avijeet Das

“Pedar laughed. 'Ah, but that’s the seanchaidh’s [storyteller's] consolation. My job is only to speak the words. I keep the vision alive with the words. And so, I’ll keep on speaking and writing until the vision becomes reality, no matter how long it takes. That’s the thing about the written word—it’ll be here beyond me.' (Chapter 13)”
― Donna Fletcher Crow, The Dawning of Peace

“She jumped a little—Nettie Cobb had the face and almost painfully shy manner of a woman made to jump at voices, no matter how soft and friendly, when they spoke from the general area of her elbow—and smiled at him nervously”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Write what's in your heart. To be fulfilled as a writer, you have to write something that you care about.”
― Gene Hackman

“The scariest moment is just before you start.
After that, things can only get better.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft