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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“Writing is an act of profound solitude. Alone, the writer descends into silence and summons entire worlds. Each one shaped by the scars and triumphs of their own journey, where love, once radiant, often fades to shadow. Within the sanctuary of the page, the writer claims the power to mend what reality has broken, to orchestrate justice and beauty in a universe entirely their own. The alchemy of language is not mere chance, nor is it magic, it is the writer’s relentless courage to plunge into the deepest chasms of the self. To unearth raw emotion and shape it into words that pulse with life. In doing so, the writer does not simply tell a story, they invite the reader to bleed, to hope, to remember, as if every feeling were their own.”
― J.S. Nathaniel, Stardust Angel

“Self-doubt is the dirty truth no one tells you before you start to write, all that hope in your heart. Hold onto that hope, that spark of joy, even when you’re thinking Eeyore thoughts. That’s what gets a writer through it all, that dream and that spark of a story. Focus on what you can control, which is the writing and improving your writing skills.”
― Cindy Skaggs, Dear Someday Writer: Finish the Damn Book!

“They,” whoever the ubiquitous they are, say that if you can quit writing, you should, because who needs this pressure, this angst, this... all the stuff you’re feeling right now? So then only the “real” writers keep going, the ones who can’t quit. I disagree. I think the people who quit didn’t have someone to help them believe in themselves, and so they quit and become reviewers or marketing execs. And they miss writing as if it were a lost library.”
― Cindy Skaggs, Dear Someday Writer: Finish the Damn Book!

“Like depression, anxiety, and other mental health struggles, writer’s block happens in your head, and it is real. In the same way we shouldn’t shame or invalidate someone with depression, we shouldn’t ignore or minimize writer’s block to those suffering from it. Having said that, like depression, you can minimize the effects and write again. The first step is recognizing you have a problem.”
― Cindy Skaggs, Dear Someday Writer: Finish the Damn Book!

“The primary goal of a book coach is to guide writers to a completed book, ensuring they have the tools, motivation, and guidance needed to reach their writing goals. An editor focuses on refining and polishing the manuscript once a substantial draft has been written. They work on improving the clarity, coherence, and overall quality of the text. An editor typically works with a single manuscript rather than providing ongoing support. The book coach is with you for the entire journey.”
― Cindy Skaggs, Dear Someday Writer: Finish the Damn Book!

“Weak people should not be writers. Their books will have no spine.”
― Amber Garibay, How to Make Ten-Million Dollars with a Rubber Chicken

“Much of what I write begins with a sound—the rustle of a mouse, the sigh of wind through meadow grass, or the hush of morning in a hollow.”
― Eliza Thorncroft

“The pen is an extension of my anatomy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I may never know whether I weave these tales from my own imagination or recall them from lives long past.”
― Edmond Thornfield

“Do we, perchance, comprehend those we hold in affection’s embrace, or by our loving them, it matters not who they are?”
― Edmond Thornfield

“Do we, perchance, comprehend those we hold in affection’s embrace, or by our loving them, it matters not who they are?”
― Edmond Thornfield, "A Tale of Paris & Paris: Echoes of Troy"