Inspiration Quotes - Page 11

Love is magical, it changes and brightens up your world!

and everyone wants to read the poem
we’re afraid to write.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

I think I have grown wise enough
To not to wish to climb up the stairs
'M gonna sit, walk, crawl, swing by on the step I am
And let the upper ones have their stare

Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words.

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.

Writing is fundamentally an act of insurrection.

The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place.

The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it

From the great Jack London: “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” What inspires you?

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.

...writing is like dancing, or sports, where the expression of grace come only through movement.

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

How do I get inspired? Life.

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.