Inspiration Quotes - Page 8

I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.

Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

Arithmetic is the death of story.

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Writing is the voices inside our heads, our minds, the creativity that exists for us to, from nothing, create alternate worlds, manipulate a personality or to introduce a new kind of love, a new kind of hate or pain or happiness or wonder or... anything we want. Through words, we can do, we can be anything we want.

Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.

If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies - Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff.

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.

About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced-to Believe..in order to convince.

If there's a will, there's a way!

I feel larger than LIFE-and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have become my own personal cheerleaders....as my fingers tap on my computer late into the night..