Writing Inspiration Quotes

“Some books are so alive that they never leave you. They only change you”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Funny isn't it? The power of story.
It's why I picked up a pen.
I slay monsters, too.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution

“You realize you must give in to the muse from afar. You have to heed the inner voice that has come calling.”
― Mala Naidoo, Across Time and Space

“When I look back on my personal story through my journals, it struck me my words had an unmatched power to heal me. To change me.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“The islands looked all the same to me--high cliffs bleached white, pebbled beaches that scratched the underside of our ships with their chalky fingernails.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“If writing didn't create emotional risk, then it wouldn't be worth doing.”
― James D. Maxon

“When I was writing, it was necessary for me to read after I had written. If you kept thinking about it, you would lose the thing you were writing before you could go on with it the next day. It was necessary to get exercise, to be tired in the body, and it was very good to make love with whom you loved. That was better than anything. But afterwards, when you were empty, it was necessary to read in order not to think or worry about your work until you could do it again. I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Words make it possible for our thoughts to travel through time and survive us.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“Your personal writing can heal, grow, and transform your life. Give your words permission to change you.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“There are thorny, unfinished chapters being written in our lives all the time. Writing can help us find our way through these challenges.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“We all obsess over our novel’s first lines, and rightly so because from it the rest of the story must flow naturally and without pause.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“You can't have a conversation with your descendants when you are dead, but they can when they are alive; write a book!”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“It's what we don't say that weighs the most.”
― Abhysheq Shukla

“Never let the disparaging comments of a myopic individual influence your life. Life is short, Appreciate it.”
― Abhysheq Shukla

“There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind that actually believes there's only two kinds of people, and the kind that ain't total idiots.”
― Abhysheq Shukla

“Family's more than just.... DNA. It's about people who care and take care of each other.”
― Abhysheq Shukla

“Weekends were made for writing.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The journey to my writing success is trying yet I will arrive, for I believe in the author of my inspiration.”
― Naide P Obiang

“Objective motives and subjective compulsions that incite a person to write is the decisive element in defining the writer’s unique voice. Anyone who does not understand oneself or is unwilling to ferret out their own buried, true identity and publicly unmask the hidden stranger that resides within us all will never be a person who can bridge a connection with other people who share similar thoughts, feelings, wants, and needs. Lacking critical discernment, this want-a-be writer will remain a cosseted imposter, playing a coldhearted game of charades. If a person is unwilling to peel back the craggy mask that we conceal ourselves behind and explore the seeds of inner awareness wrapped inside the enigma of doubt engulfing all people, one can still aim to be a writer of nonfiction or technical journals. Creative writing, in sharp contrast, is for the intrepid cliff dwellers, the recluses willing to mine the soft belly of their internal psychosis.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We each share in innumerable physical and emotional experiences. Our like-kind responses to the external world connect every person together whoever walked this earth. Who has not seen death tap dancing amongst the shagged icicles of a winter wonderland? Who has not heard their hearts petals welcome the bloom of springtime’s opalescence? Who has not experienced the calm of leaves rusting beneath their feet or felt befallen with an overwhelming sense of regeneration after slathered in baptismal wetness by an unexpected rainstorm? Who has not drunk in the smoky smells of leaves burning in October, hunted solace in the singeing embrace of a campfire on a cold winter night, or sought to escape from summers burning blanket of oppression by dunking their overheated stovetop into a mountain stream of clear water? Who has not felt the cold kiss of winter or experienced the melted butter feeling of crawling into bed after a day of hard work? Who is exempt from the punch of hunger in their gut or immune from the enraged screams of an unquenchable thirst? Who has not broken out in a frisson of Goosebumps when passing the graveyard on an ill-omened evening and experienced the electric sensation of ghostly fingernails running down the tapered stem of their spine? Who has not fallen in love at first sight? Who has not danced on the edge of a cliff, stared into the gloom, and asked themselves what if they slipped over the lip? Who has not experienced the existential vertigo, the anxiety of dizziness that freedom brings whenever a human being standing in solitude navigates amongst the tension between the finite and infinite and contemplates the possibility or of the divine shaping reality?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Our brains allow us to adapt and change -- to write and rewrite who we are.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“Our writing can transform us.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“Even amid our problems we can find words that will help us explore, be mindful, grow, and create a better way of living.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“Writing not only helps us make sense of living; it can help transform us.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“Why I write is to create dreams.”
― Samuel Colbran, The Great Spoon Heist

“Writing is not a relationship status, than why to make it complicated. Keep it simple.
It doesn't matter if your grammar is up & down. Important thing is to convey your message to the audience.Write to express not to impress.”
― Abhysheq Shukla

“The world badly needs a “Great Arranger”
putting everything in perfect order,
where none shall be seen in wretched hunger,
without a health care and decent shelter.

Why we can order our homes, not our world?
Where are all the leaders and the rich lords?
Where the bright ones, the holy ones adored?
Is it only God who can fix the world?”
― Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“Only Love or Death can bring peace - I leave it on destiny to decide which one will find me first.”
― Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

“Destiny can't be changed, but it can be challenged.”
― Abhysheq Shukla

“Sometimes the most significant moments happen in your life without any choice at all.”
― Abhysheq Shukla